Page 168 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Why answer not the double majesties [480]
This friendly treaty of our threat’ned town?

KING PHILIP
Speak England first, that hath been forward first
To speak unto this city: what say you?

KING JOHN
If that the Dolphin there, thy princely son,

Can in this book of beauty read “I love”, [485]
Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen:
For Anjou, and fair Touraine, Maine, Poictiers,
And all that we upon this side the sea −

Except this city now by us besieg’d −
Find liable to our crown and dignity, [490]
Shall gild her bridal bed, and make her rich
In titles, honours and promotions,

As she in beauty, education, blood,
Holds hand with any princess of the world.

KING PHILIP
What say’st thou, boy? look in the lady’s face. [495]

LEWIS
I do, my lord; and in her eye I find
A wonder, or a wondrous miracle,

The shadow of myself form’d in her eye;
Which, being but the shadow of your son,
Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow: [500]
I do protest I never lov’d myself

Till now infixed I beheld myself
Drawn in the flattering table of her eye.
[Whispers with Blanche.]

BASTARD
[Aside.]

Drawn in the flattering table of her eye!