King John
Act V, Scene 3
The battlefield.
Robert Mantell as King John
Matzene Studio, Early 20th century
- Alarums. Enter King John and Hubert.
King John
1- How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.
Hubert de Burgh
2- Badly, I fear. How fares your Majesty?
King John
3 - 4- This fever, that hath troubled me so long,
- Lies heavy on me. O, my heart is sick!
- Enter a Messenger.
The Messenger
5 - 7- My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,
- Desires your Majesty to leave the field,
- And send him word by me which way you go.
King John
8- Tell him toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.
The Messenger
9 - 13- Be of good comfort; for the great supply,
- That was expected by the Dauphin here,
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Are wrack’d three nights ago on Goodwin Sands;
Feb 23, 2019 Miko Goodwin Sands is a shallow portion of the North Sea near Kent England. It is notorious as the site of thousands of shipwrecks. - This news was brought to Richard but even now.
- The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.
King John
14 - 17- Ay me, this tyrant fever burns me up,
- And will not let me welcome this good news.
- Set on toward Swinstead. To my litter straight,
- Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint.
- Exeunt.
From: Costume designs for King John
John Miller, George Scharf, 1823