The Complete Works of William Shakespeare · William Shakespeare
SCENE I. France. Before the walls of Angiers.
KING JOHN. What say these young ones? What say you, my niece? BLANCHE. That she is bound in honour still to do What you in wisdom still vouchsafe to say. KING JOHN. Speak then, Prince Dauphin. Can you love this lady? LOUIS. Nay, ask me if I can refrain from love; For I do love her most unfeignedly. KING JOHN. Then do I give Volquessen, Touraine, Maine, Poitiers, and Anjou, these five provinces, With her to thee; and this addition more, Full thirty thousand marks of English coin.— Philip of France, if thou be pleas’d withal, Command thy son and daughter to join hands. KING PHILIP. It likes us well.—Young princes, close your hands. AUSTRIA. And your lips too; for I am well assur’d That I did so when I was first assur’d. KING PHILIP. Now, citizens of Angiers, ope your gates, Let in that amity which you have made; For at Saint Mary’s chapel presently The rites of marriage shall be solemniz’d. Is not the Lady Constance in this troop? I know she is not, for this match made up Her presence would have interrupted much. Where is she and her son? Tell me, who knows. LOUIS. She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent. KING PHILIP. And, by my faith, this league that we have made Will give her sadness very little cure.— Brother of England, how may we content This widow lady? In her right we came; Which we, God knows, have turn’d another way, To our own vantage.
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