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作者:竹水冷      更新:2021-02-19 20:31      字数:9322
  sentence writ; Linked but to common reason or slightest wit: These follow
  for no harm; but yet incur Self penalty with those that raised this stir。 A
  God's   name;   on;   to   calm   our   private   foes   With   breath   of   gravity;   not
  dangerous blows!
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  SIR THOMAS MORE
  SCENE IV。 St。 Martin's Gate。
  'Enter Lincoln; Doll; Clown; George Betts; Williamson; others; and a
  Sergeant at Arms。'
  LINCOLN。   Peace;   hear   me:   he   that   will   not   see   a   red   herring   at   a
  Harry groat; butter at elevenpence a pound; meal at nine shillings a bushel;
  and beef at four nobles a stone; list to me。
  GEORGE。   It   will   come   to   that   pass;   if   strangers   be   suffered。   Mark
  him。
  LINCOLN。 Our country is a great eating country; ergo; they eat more
  in our country than they do in their own。
  CLOWN。 By a halfpenny loaf; a day; troy weight。
  LINCOLN。         They   bring   in  strange   roots;  which    is  merely   to  the
  undoing of poor prentices; for what's a sorry parsnip to a good heart?
  WILLIAMSON。 Trash; trash; they breed sore eyes; and tis enough to
  infect the city with the palsey。
  LINCOLN。 Nay; it has infected it with the palsey; for these bastards of
  dung;   as   you   know   they   grow   in   dung;   have   infected   us;   and   it   is   our
  infection will make the city shake; which partly comes through the eating
  of parsnips。
  CLOWN。 True; and pumpkins together。
  SERGEANT。 What say ye to the mercy of the king? Do ye refuse it?
  LINCOLN。 You would have us upon this; would you? no; marry; do
  we not; we accept of the king's mercy; but we will show no mercy upon
  the strangers。
  SERGEANT。   You   are   the   simplest   things   that   ever   stood   In   such   a
  question。
  LINCOLN。 How say ye now; prentices? prentices simple! down with
  him!
  ALL。 Prentices simple! prentices simple!
  'Enter the Lord Mayor; Surrey; Shrewsbury; More。'
  LORD MAYOR。 Hold! in the king's name; hold!
  SURREY。 Friends; masters; countrymen
  LORD MAYOR。 Peace; how; peace! I charge you; keep the peace!
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  SHREWSBURY。 My masters; countrymen
  WILLIAMSON。 The noble earl of Shrewsbury; let's hear him。
  GEORGE。 We'll hear the earl of Surrey。
  LINCOLN。 The earl of Shrewsbury。
  GEORGE。 We'll hear both。
  ALL。 Both; both; both; both!
  LINCOLN。 Peace; I say; peace! are you men of wisdom; or what are
  you?
  SURREY。 What you will have them; but not men of wisdom。
  ALL。 We'll not hear my lord of Surrey; no; no; no; no; no! Shrewsbury;
  Shrewsbury!
  MORE。   Whiles   they   are   o'er   the   bank   of   their   obedience;   Thus   will
  they bear down all things。
  LINCOLN。 Sheriff More speaks; shall we hear Sheriff More speak?
  DOLL。 Let's hear him: a keeps a plentyful shrievaltry; and a made my
  brother Arthur Watchins Seriant Safes yeoman: let's hear Shrieve More。
  ALL。 Shrieve More; More; More; Shrieve More!
  MORE。 Even by the rule you have among yourselves; Command still
  audience。
  ALL。 Surrey; Surrey! More; More!
  LINCOLN: Peace; peace; silence; peace。
  GEORGE。 Peace; peace; silence; peace。
  MORE。   You   that   have   voice   and   credit   with   the   number   Command
  them to a stillness。
  LINCOLN。 A plague on them; they will not hold their peace; the dual
  cannot rule them。
  MORE。 Then what a rough and riotous charge have you; To lead those
  that the dual cannot rule? Good masters; hear me speak。
  DOLL。 Aye;  by th'   mass; will   we;  More: th'  art a good   housekeeper;
  and I thank thy good worship for my brother Arthur Watchins。
  ALL。 Peace; peace。
  MORE。 Look; what you do offend you cry upon; That is; the peace:
  not one of you here present; Had there such fellows lived when you were
  babes; That could have topped the peace; as now you would; The   peace
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  wherein   you   have   till   now   grown   up   Had   been   ta'en   from   you;   and   the
  bloody times Could not have brought you to the state of men。 Alas; poor
  things; what is it you have got; Although we grant you get the thing you
  seek?
  GEORGE。 Marry; the removing of the strangers; which cannot choose
  but much advantage the poor handicrafts of the city。
  MORE。 Grant them removed; and grant that this your noise Hath chid
  down   all    the   majesty   of   England;     Imagine   that    you   see  the   wretched
  strangers;   Their   babies   at   their   backs   and   their   poor   luggage;   Plodding
  tooth ports and costs for transportation; And that you sit as kings in your
  desires;   Authority   quite   silent   by   your   brawl;   And   you   in   ruff   of   your
  opinions   clothed;   What   had   you   got?   I'll   tell   you:   you   had   taught   How
  insolence and   strong hand   should prevail;  How order   should be quelled;
  and   by   this   pattern   Not   one   of   you   should   live   an   aged   man;   For   other
  ruffians; as their fancies wrought; With self same hand; self reasons; and
  self right; Would shark on you; and men like ravenous fishes Would feed
  on one another。
  DOLL。 Before God; that's as true as the Gospel。
  LINCOLN。 Nay; this is a sound fellow; I tell you: let's mark him。
  MORE。       Let   me    set   up   before    your   thoughts;     good    friends;   On
  supposition;   which   if   you   will   mark; You   shall   perceive   how   horrible   a
  shape   Your   innovation   bears:   first;   tis   a   sin   Which   oft   the   apostle   did
  forewarn us of; Urging obedience to authority; And twere no error; if I told
  you all; You were in arms against your God himself。
  ALL。 Marry; God forbid that!
  MORE。 Nay; certainly you are; For to the king God hath his office lent
  Of dread; of justice; power and command; Hath bid him rule; and willed
  you to obey; And; to add ampler majesty to this; He hath not only lent the
  king his figure; His throne and sword; but given him his own name; Calls
  him a god on earth。 What do you; then; Rising gainst him that God himself
  installs; But rise against God? what do you to your souls In doing this? O;
  desperate   as   you   are;   Wash   your   foul   minds   with   tears;   and   those   same
  hands; That you like rebels lift against the peace; Lift up for peace;   and
  your unreverent knees; Make them your feet to kneel to be forgiven! Tell
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  me but this: what rebel captain; As mutinies are incident; by his name Can
  still the rout? who will obey a traitor? Or how can well that proclamation
  sound; When there is no addition but a rebel To qualify a rebel? You'll put
  down strangers; Kill them; cut their throats; possess their houses; And lead
  the majesty of law in line; To slip him like a hound。 Say now the king (As
  he is clement; if th' offender mourn) Should so much come to short of your
  great trespass As but to banish you; whether would you go? What country;
  by the nature of your error; Should give you harbor? go you to France or
  Flanders; To any German province; to Spain or Portugal; Nay; any where
  that not adheres to England; Why; you must needs be strangers: would
  you be pleased To find a nation of such barbarous temper; That; breaking
  out   in   hideous   violence; Would   not   afford   you   an   abode  on   earth; Whet
  their detested knives against your throats; Spurn you like dogs; and like as
  if that God Owed not nor made not you; nor that the claimants Were not
  all appropriate to your comforts; But chartered unto them; what would you
  think To be thus used? this is the strangers case; And this your mountanish
  inhumanity。
  ALL。 Faith; a says true: let's do as we may be done to。
  LINCOLN。   We'll   be   ruled   by   you;   Master   More;   if   you'll   stand   our
  friend to procure our pardon。
  MORE。 Submit you to these noble gentlemen; Entreat their mediation
  to the king; Give up yourself to form; obey the magistrate; And there's no
  doubt but mercy may be found; If you so seek。 To persist in it is present
  death:   but;   if   you   Yield   yourselves;   no   doubt   what   punishment   You   in
  simplicity     have   incurred;    his  highness    In  mercy    will   most   graciously
  pardon。
  ALL。 We yield; and desire his highness' mercy。
  'They lay by their weapons。'
  MORE。 No doubt his majesty will grant it you