But wherefore do you droop?why look you sad?
Be great in act,as you have been in thought;Let not the world see fear and sad distrust Govern the motion of a kingly eye:
Be stirring as the time;be fire with fire;
Threaten the threatener and outface the brow Of bragging horror:so shall inferior eyes,That borrow their behaviors from the great,Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.
Away,and glister like the god of war,When he intendeth to become the field:
Show boldness and aspiring confidence.
What,shall they seek the lion in his den,And fright him there?and make him tremble there?
O,let it not be said:forage,and run To meet displeasure farther from the doors,And grapple with him ere he comes so nigh.KING JOHN The legate of the pope hath been with me,And I have made a happy peace with him;And he hath promised to dismiss the powers Led by the Dauphin.BASTARD O inglorious league!
Shall we,upon the footing of our land,Send fair-play orders and make compromise,Insinuation,parley and base truce To arms invasive?shall a beardless boy,A cocker'd silken wanton,brave our fields,And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil,Mocking the air with colours idly spread,And find no cheque?Let us,my liege,to arms:
Perchance the cardinal cannot make your peace;Or if he do,let it at least be said They saw we had a purpose of defence.KING JOHN Have thou the ordering of this present time.BASTARD Away,then,with good courage!yet,Iknow,Our party may well meet a prouder foe.Exeunt
SCENE II.England.
The DAUPHIN'S camp at Saint Edmundsbury
Enter,in arms,LEWIS,SALISBURY,MELUN,PEMBROKE,BIGOT,and Soldiers LEWIS My Lord Melun,let this be copied out,And keep it safe for our remembrance:
Return the precedent to these lords again;
That,having our fair order written down,Both they and we,perusing o'er these notes,May know wherefore we took the sacrament And keep our faiths firm and inviolable.SALISBURY Upon our sides it never shall be broken.