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King John
[I, 1] |
Essex |
48 |
My liege, here is the strangest controversy
Come from country to be judged by you,
That e'er I heard: shall I produce the men?
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King John
[I, 1] |
Philip the Bastard |
79 |
I know not why, except to get the land.
But once he slander'd me with bastardy:
But whether I be as true begot or no,
That still I lay upon my mother's head,
But that I am as well begot, my liege,—
Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me!—
Compare our faces and be judge yourself.
If old sir Robert did beget us both
And were our father and this son like him,
O old sir Robert, father, on my knee
I give heaven thanks I was not like to thee!
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3 |
King John
[I, 1] |
Faulconbridge |
101 |
My gracious liege, when that my father lived,
Your brother did employ my father much,—
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King John
[I, 1] |
Faulconbridge |
105 |
And once dispatch'd him in an embassy
To Germany, there with the emperor
To treat of high affairs touching that time.
The advantage of his absence took the king
And in the mean time sojourn'd at my father's;
Where how he did prevail I shame to speak,
But truth is truth: large lengths of seas and shores
Between my father and my mother lay,
As I have heard my father speak himself,
When this same lusty gentleman was got.
Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd
His lands to me, and took it on his death
That this my mother's son was none of his;
And if he were, he came into the world
Full fourteen weeks before the course of time.
Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine,
My father's land, as was my father's will.
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5 |
King John
[I, 1] |
Philip the Bastard |
164 |
Philip, my liege, so is my name begun,
Philip, good old sir Robert's wife's eldest son.
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6 |
King John
[III, 2] |
Philip the Bastard |
1288 |
My lord, I rescued her;
Her highness is in safety, fear you not:
But on, my liege; for very little pains
Will bring this labour to an happy end.
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King John
[IV, 2] |
Messenger |
1851 |
My liege, her ear
Is stopp'd with dust; the first of April died
Your noble mother: and, as I hear, my lord,
The Lady Constance in a frenzy died
Three days before: but this from rumour's tongue
I idly heard; if true or false I know not.
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8 |
King John
[IV, 2] |
Messenger |
1921 |
With all my heart, my liege.
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9 |
King John
[V, 1] |
Philip the Bastard |
2261 |
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.
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King John
[V, 7] |
Salisbury |
2701 |
You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.
My liege! my lord! but now a king, now thus.
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