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Act 5, Scene 6

An open place in the neighborhood of Swinstead Abbey.

  1. [Enter the BASTARD and HUBERT, meeting.]
  2. Hubert de Burgh
  3. 2480 Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I shoot.
  4. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  5. 2481 A friend.—What art thou?
  6. Hubert de Burgh
  7. 2482 Of the part of England.
  8. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  9. 2483 Whither dost thou go?
  10. Hubert de Burgh
  11. 2484 What's that to thee? Why may I not demand
  12. 2485 Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine?
  13. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  14. 2486 Hubert, I think.
  15. Hubert de Burgh
  16. 2487 Thou hast a perfect thought:
  17. 2488 I will, upon all hazards, well believe
  18. 2489 Thou art my friend that know'st my tongue so well.
  19. 2490 Who art thou?
  20. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  21. 2491 Who thou wilt: and if thou please,
  22. 2492 Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think
  23. 2493 I come one way of the Plantagenets.
  24. Hubert de Burgh
  25. 2494 Unkind remembrance! thou and eyeless night
  26. 2495 Have done me shame:—brave soldier, pardon me,
  27. 2496 That any accent breaking from thy tongue
  28. 2497 Should scape the true acquaintance of mine ear.
  29. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  30. 2498 Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad?
  31. Hubert de Burgh
  32. 2499 Why, here walk I, in the black brow of night,
  33. 2500 To find you out.
  34. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  35. 2501 Brief, then; and what's the news?
  36. Hubert de Burgh
  37. 2502 O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night,
  38. 2503 Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible.
  39. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  40. 2504 Show me the very wound of this ill news;
  41. 2505 I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it.
  42. Hubert de Burgh
  43. 2506 The king, I fear, is poison'd by a monk:
  44. 2507 I left him almost speechless and broke out
  45. 2508 To acquaint you with this evil, that you might
  46. 2509 The better arm you to the sudden time,
  47. 2510 Than if you had at leisure known of this.
  48. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  49. 2511 How did he take it; who did taste to him?
  50. Hubert de Burgh
  51. 2512 A monk, I tell you; a resolved villain,
  52. 2513 Whose bowels suddenly burst out: the king
  53. 2514 Yet speaks, and peradventure may recover.
  54. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  55. 2515 Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?
  56. Hubert de Burgh
  57. 2516 Why, know you not? The lords are all come back,
  58. 2517 And brought Prince Henry in their company;
  59. 2518 At whose request the king hath pardon'd them,
  60. 2519 And they are all about his majesty.
  61. Philip the Bastard (Faulconbridge)
  62. 2520 Withhold thine indignation, mighty heaven,
  63. 2521 And tempt us not to bear above our power!—
  64. 2522 I'll tell thee, Hubert, half my power this night,
  65. 2523 Passing these flats, are taken by the tide,—
  66. 2524 These Lincoln washes have devoured them;
  67. 2525 Myself, well-mounted, hardly have escap'd.
  68. 2526 Away, before! conduct me to the king;
  69. 2527 I doubt he will be dead or ere I come.
  70. [Exeunt.]