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| <H3>SCENE I. A room in a castle.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter HUBERT and Executioners</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Heat me these irons hot; and look thou stand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Within the arras: when I strike my foot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>And bind the boy which you shall find with me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Fast to the chair: be heedful: hence, and watch.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>First Executioner</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>I hope your warrant will bear out the deed.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>Uncleanly scruples! fear not you: look to't.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Executioners</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=8>Young lad, come forth; I have to say with you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ARTHUR</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>Good morrow, Hubert.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>Good morrow, little prince.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>As little prince, having so great a title</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>To be more prince, as may be. You are sad.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=13>Indeed, I have been merrier.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=14>Mercy on me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Methinks no body should be sad but I:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Yet, I remember, when I was in France,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Young gentlemen would be as sad as night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Only for wantonness. By my christendom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>So I were out of prison and kept sheep,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>I should be as merry as the day is long;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>And so I would be here, but that I doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>My uncle practises more harm to me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>He is afraid of me and I of him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Is it my fault that I was Geffrey's son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>No, indeed, is't not; and I would to heaven</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>I were your son, so you would love me, Hubert.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=27>[Aside] If I talk to him, with his innocent prate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>He will awake my mercy which lies dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Therefore I will be sudden and dispatch.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>Are you sick, Hubert? you look pale to-day:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>In sooth, I would you were a little sick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>That I might sit all night and watch with you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>I warrant I love you more than you do me.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=34>[Aside] His words do take possession of my bosom.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Read here, young Arthur.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Showing a paper</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=36>How now, foolish rheum!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Turning dispiteous torture out of door!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>I must be brief, lest resolution drop</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Out at mine eyes in tender womanish tears.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Can you not read it? Is it not fair writ?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=41>Too fairly, Hubert, for so foul effect:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>Must you with hot irons burn out both mine eyes?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=43>Young boy, I must.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=44> And will you?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=45>And I will.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=46>Have you the heart? When your head did but ache,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>I knit my handercher about your brows,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>The best I had, a princess wrought it me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>And I did never ask it you again;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>And with my hand at midnight held your head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>And like the watchful minutes to the hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Or 'What good love may I perform for you?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Many a poor man's son would have lien still</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>And ne'er have spoke a loving word to you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>But you at your sick service had a prince.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>Nay, you may think my love was crafty love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>And call it cunning: do, an if you will:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>If heaven be pleased that you must use me ill,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>Why then you must. Will you put out mine eyes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>These eyes that never did nor never shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>So much as frown on you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=64>I have sworn to do it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>And with hot irons must I burn them out.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=66>Ah, none but in this iron age would do it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>The iron of itself, though heat red-hot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Approaching near these eyes, would drink my tears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>And quench his fiery indignation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>Even in the matter of mine innocence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>Nay, after that, consume away in rust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>But for containing fire to harm mine eye.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Are you more stubborn-hard than hammer'd iron?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>An if an angel should have come to me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>And told me Hubert should put out mine eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>I would not have believed him,--no tongue but Hubert's.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=77>Come forth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Stamps</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Executioners, with a cord, irons, & c</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=78>Do as I bid you do.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=79>O, save me, Hubert, save me! my eyes are out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>Even with the fierce looks of these bloody men.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=81>Give me the iron, I say, and bind him here.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=82>Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>I will not struggle, I will stand stone-still.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>For heaven sake, Hubert, let me not be bound!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Nay, hear me, Hubert, drive these men away,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>And I will sit as quiet as a lamb;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>Nor look upon the iron angerly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>Whatever torment you do put me to.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech23><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=91>Go, stand within; let me alone with him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>First Executioner</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=92>I am best pleased to be from such a deed.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Executioners</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech25><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=93>Alas, I then have chid away my friend!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>Let him come back, that his compassion may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>Give life to yours.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech26><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=97>Come, boy, prepare yourself.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech27><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=98>Is there no remedy?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech28><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=99>None, but to lose your eyes.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech29><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=100>O heaven, that there were but a mote in yours,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>Any annoyance in that precious sense!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>Then feeling what small things are boisterous there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>Your vile intent must needs seem horrible.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech30><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=105>Is this your promise? go to, hold your tongue.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech31><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=106>Hubert, the utterance of a brace of tongues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=108>Let me not hold my tongue, let me not, Hubert;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>So I may keep mine eyes: O, spare mine eyes.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>Though to no use but still to look on you!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>Lo, by my truth, the instrument is cold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>And would not harm me.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech32><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=114>I can heat it, boy.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech33><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=115>No, in good sooth: the fire is dead with grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>Being create for comfort, to be used</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>In undeserved extremes: see else yourself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>There is no malice in this burning coal;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>The breath of heaven has blown his spirit out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>And strew'd repentent ashes on his head.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech34><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=121>But with my breath I can revive it, boy.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech35><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=122>An if you do, you will but make it blush</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>And glow with shame of your proceedings, Hubert:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>Nay, it perchance will sparkle in your eyes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>And like a dog that is compell'd to fight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=126>Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>All things that you should use to do me wrong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>Deny their office: only you do lack</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=129>That mercy which fierce fire and iron extends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>Creatures of note for mercy-lacking uses.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech36><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=131>Well, see to live; I will not touch thine eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>For all the treasure that thine uncle owes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>Yet am I sworn and I did purpose, boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>With this same very iron to burn them out.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech37><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=135>O, now you look like Hubert! all this while</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=136>You were disguised.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech38><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=137>Peace; no more. Adieu.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=138>Your uncle must not know but you are dead;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>Will not offend thee.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech39><b>ARTHUR</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=143>O heaven! I thank you, Hubert.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech40><b>HUBERT</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=144>Silence; no more: go closely in with me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>Much danger do I undergo for thee.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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