Page 170 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

With her to thee; and this addition more,
Full thirty thousand marks of English coin. [530]
Philip of France, if thou be pleas’d withal,
Command thy son and daughter to join hands.

KING PHILIP
It likes us well; young princes, close your hands.

AUSTRIA
And your lips too; for I am well assur’d
That I did so when I was first assur’d. [535]

KING PHILIP
Now, citizens of Angiers, ope your gates,
Let in that amity which you have made;

For at Saint Mary’s chapel presently
The rites of marriage shall be solemniz’d.
Is not the Lady Constance in this troop? [540]
I know she is not, for this match made up
Her presence would have interrupted much:

Where is she and her son? tell me, who knows.

LEWIS
She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.

KING PHILIP
And, by my faith, this league that we have made [545]
Will give her sadness very little cure.

Brother of England, how may we content
This widow lady? In her right we came;
Which we, God knows, have turn’d another way,
To our own vantage.

KING JOHN
We will heal up all; [550]

For we’ll create young Arthur Duke of Britain
And Earl of Richmond; and this rich fair town