Page 155 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

As great Alcides’ shoes upon an ass:
But, ass, I’ll take that burthen from your back, [145]
Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.

AUSTRIA
What cracker is this same that deafs our ears
With this abundance of superfluous breath?

KING PHILIP
Lewis, determine what we shall do straight.

AUSTRIA
Women and fools, break off your conference. [150]

KING PHILIP
King John, this is the very sum of all:
England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
In right of Arthur do I claim of thee

Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms?

KING JOHN
My life as soon: I do defy thee, France. [155]
Arthur of Britain, yield thee to my hand;
And out of my dear love I’ll give thee more
Than e’er the coward hand of France can win:

Submit thee, boy.

ELEANOR
Come to thy grandam, child.

CONSTANCE
Do, child, go to it grandam, child; [160]
Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will

Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig:
There’s good grandam.

ARTHUR