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VOL. III.

KING JOHN.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

KING JOHN.

PRINCE HENRY, his Son; afterwards King Henry 111.

ARTHUR, Duke of Bretagne, Son of Geffrey, late Duke of Bretagne, the elder Brother of King John.

WILLIAM MARESHALL, Earl of Pembroke.

GEFFREY FITZ-PETER, Earl of Essex, Chief Justiciary of England.

WILLIAM LONGSWORD, Earl of Salisbury.

ROBERT BIGOT, Earl of Norfolk.

HUBERT DE BURGH, Chamberlain to the King.

ROBERT FAULCONBRIDGE, Son of Sir Robert Faulconbridge.

PHILIP FAULCONBRIDGE, his Half-Brother. Bastard Son to King Richard I JAMES GURNEY, Servant to Lady Faulconbridge.

PETER OF POMFRET, a Prophet.

PHILIP, King of Frare.

LEWIS, the Dauphin.

ARCHDUKE OF AUSTRIA.

CARDINAL PANDULPH, the Pope's Legate.

MELUN, a French Lord.

CHATILLON, Ambassador from France to King Jokn.

ELINOR, the Widow of King Henry II., and Mother of King John.
CONSTANCE, Mother to Arthur.

BLANCH, Daughter to Alphonso, King of Castile, and Niece to King John.
LADY FAULCONFRIDGE, Mother to the Bastard, and Robert Faulconirulye

Lords, Ladies, Citizens of Angi rs, Sheriff. Heralds, Officers,
Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants.

SCENE Sometimes in England, and sometimes in France.

KING JOHN.

ACT 1.

SCENE I.-NORTHAMPTON.

Palace.

A Room of State in the

Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and others, with CHATILLON.

King John. Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?

Chatillm. Thus, after greeting, speaks the king of France,

In my behaviour,1 to the majesty,

The borrow'd majesty of England here.

Elinor. A strange beginning;-borrow'd majesty! King John. Silence, good mother; hear the embassy. Chatillon. Philip of France, in right and true behalf Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,

Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim
To this fair island, and the territories;

To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine:
Desiring thee to lay aside the sword,

Which sways usurpingly these several titles;
And put the same into young Arthur's hand,
Thy nephew, and right royal sovereign.

King John. What follows, if we disallow of this?
Chatillon. The proud control of fierce and bloody war,

To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.

King John. Here have we war for war, and blood for blood,

Controlment for controlment: so answer France.

1 In the manner I now de

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