Page 243 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
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BASTARD
Art thou gone so? I do but stay behind [70]
To do the office for thee of revenge,
And then my soul shall wait on thee to heaven,
As it on earth hath been thy servant still.
Now, now, you stars that move in your right spheres,
Where be your powers? show now your mended faiths, [75]
And instantly return with me again,
To push destruction and perpetual shame
Out of the weak door of our fainting land.
Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought;
The Dolphin rages at our very heels. [80]
SALISBURY
It seems you know not, then, so much as we:
The Cardinal Pandulph is within at rest,
Who half an hour since came from the Dolphin,
And brings from him such offers of our peace
As we with honour and respect may take, [85]
With purpose presently to leave this war.
BASTARD
He will the rather do it when he sees
Ourselves well sinew’d to our defence.
SALISBURY
Nay, ’tis in a manner done already,
For many carriages he hath dispatch’d [90]
To the sea-side, and put his cause and quarrel
To the disposing of the cardinal:
With whom yourself, myself and other lords,
If you think meet, this afternoon will post
To consummate this business happily. [95]
BASTARD
Let it be so: and you, my noble prince,
With other princes that may best be spar’d,
Shall wait upon your father’s funeral.
