Page 139 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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Our strong possession and our right for us.
ELEANOR
Your strong possession much more than your right, [40]
Or else it must go wrong with you and me:
So much my conscience whispers in your ear,
Which none but heaven, and you, and I, shall hear.
Enter a Sheriff.
ESSEX
My liege, here is the strangest controversy,
Come from the country to be judg’d by you, [45]
That e’er I heard: shall I produce the men?
KING JOHN
Let them approach.
[Exit Sheriff.]
Our abbeys and our priories shall pay
This expeditious charge.
Enter Robert Faulconbridge and Philip his bastard brother.
What men are you?
BASTARD
Your faithful subject I, a gentleman, [50]
Born in Northamptonshire, and eldest son,
As I suppose, to Robert Faulconbridge,
A soldier, by the honour-giving hand
Of Cœur-de-lion knighted in the field.
KING JOHN
What art thou? [55]
ROBERT
The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge.
KING JOHN
