Page 219 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

I am no villain.

SALISBURY
Must I rob the law?
[Drawing his sword.]

BASTARD
Your sword is bright, sir; put it up again.

SALISBURY
Not till I sheathe it in a murtherer’s skin. [80]

HUBERT
Stand back, Lord Salisbury, stand back, I say;

By heaven, I think my sword’s as sharp as yours.
I would not have you, lord, forget yourself,
Nor tempt the danger of my true defence;
Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget [85]

Your worth, your greatness and nobility.

BIGOT
Out, dunghill! dar’st thou brave a nobleman?

HUBERT
Not for my life: but yet I dare defend
My innocent life against an emperor.

SALISBURY
Thou art a murtherer.

HUBERT
Do not prove me so: [90]

Yet I am none. Whose tongue soe’er speaks false,
Not truly speaks; who speaks not truly, lies.

PEMBROKE
Cut him to pieces!