Page 137 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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ACT I IT
Scene I IT
[The Court of England.]
Enter King John, Queen Eleanor, Pembroke, Essex, Salisbury, and
Attendants, with them Chatillon of France.
KING JOHN
Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?
CHATILLON
Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France
In my behaviour to the majesty,
The borrow’d majesty, of England here.
ELEANOR
A strange beginning: “borrow’d majesty”! [5]
KING JOHN
Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.
CHATILLON
Philip of France, in right and true behalf
Of thy deceased brother Geoffrey’s son,
Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim
To this fair island and the territories: [10]
To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
Desiring thee to lay aside the sword
Which sways usurpingly these several titles,
And put the same into young Arthur’s hand,
Thy nephew and right royal sovereign. [15]
