第 8 节
作者:指点迷津      更新:2021-02-21 16:38      字数:6460
  the deed is meritorious。
  DUMAINE。 But how wilt thou get opportunitye?
  FRIER。 Tush my Lord; let me alone for that。
  DUMAINE。 Frier come with me;
  We will goe talke more of this within。
  Exeunt。
  'Scene xxii'
  Sound Drumme and Trumpets; and enter the King of France;
  and Navarre; Epernoune; Bartus; Pleshe and Souldiers。
  KING。 Brother of Navarre; I sorrow much;
  That ever I was prov'd your enemy;
  And that the sweet and princely minde you beare;
  Was ever troubled with injurious warres:
  I vow as I am lawfull King of France;
  To recompence your reconciled love;
  With all the honors and affections;
  That ever I vouchsafte my dearest freends。
  NAVARRE。 It is enough if that Navarre may be
  Esteemed faithfull to the King of France:
  Whose service he may still commaund to death。
  KING。 Thankes to my Kingly Brother of Navarre。
  Then there wee'l lye before Lutetia's walles;
  Girting this strumpet Cittie with our siege;
  Till surfeiting with our afflicting armes;
  She cast her hatefull stomack to the earth。
  Enter a Messenger。
  MESSENGER。 And it please your Majestie heere is a Frier of the
  order of the Jacobins; sent from the President of Paris; that
  craves accesse unto your grace。
  KING。 Let him come in。
  Enter Frier with a Letter。
  EPERNOUNE。 I like not this Friers look。
  Twere not amisse my Lord; if he were searcht。
  KING。 Sweete Epernoune; our Friers are holy men;
  And will not offer violence to their King;
  For all the wealth and treasure of the world。
  Frier; thou dost acknowledge me thy King?
  FRIER。 I my good Lord; and will dye therein。
  KING。 Then come thou neer; and tell what newes thou bringst。
  FRIER。 My Lord;
  The President of Paris greetes your grace;
  And sends his dutie by these speedye lines;
  Humblye craving your gracious reply。
  KING。 Ile read them Frier; and then Ile answere thee。
  FRIER。 Sancte Jacobus; now have mercye on me。
  He stabs the King with a knife as he readeth the letter; and
  then the King getteth the knife and killes him。
  EPERNOUNE。 O my Lord; let him live a while。
  KING。 No; let the villaine dye; and feele in hell;
  Just torments for his trechery。
  NAVARRE。 What; is your highnes hurt?
  KING。 Yes Navarre; but not to death I hope。
  NAVARRE。 God shield your grace from such a sodaine death:
  Goe call a surgeon hether strait。
  'Exit attendant。'
  KING。 What irreligeous Pagans partes be these;
  Of such as horde them of the holy church?
  Take hence that damned villaine from my sight。
  'Exeunt attendants with body'
  EPERNOUNE。 Ah; had your highnes let him live;
  We might have punisht him for his deserts。
  KING。 Sweet Epernoune all Rebels under heaven;
  Shall take example by his punishment;
  How they beare armes against their soveraigne。
  Goe call the English Agent hether strait;
  Ile send my sister England newes of this;
  And give her warning of her trecherous foes。
  'Enter Surgeon。'
  NAVARRE。 Pleaseth your grace to let the Surgeon search your wound。
  KING。 The wound I warrant you is deepe my Lord;
  Search Surgeon and resolve me what thou seest。
  The Surgeon searcheth。
  Enter the English Agent。
  Agent for England; send thy mistres word;
  What this detested Jacobin hath done。
  Tell her for all this that I hope to live;
  Which if I doe; the Papall Monarck goes
  To wrack; an antechristian kingdome falles。
  These bloudy hands shall teare his triple Crowne;
  And fire accursed Rome about his eares。
  Ile fire his erased buildings and incense
  The papall towers to kisse the holy earth。
  Navarre; give me thy hand; I heere do sweare;
  To ruinate this wicked Church of Rome;
  That hatcheth up such bloudy practices。
  And heere protest eternall love to thee;
  And to the Queene of England especially;
  Whom God hath blest for hating Popery。
  NAVARRE。 These words revive my thoughts and comfort me;
  To see your highnes in this vertuous minde。
  KING。 Tell me Surgeon; shall I live?
  SURGEON。 Alas my Lord; the wound is dangerous;
  For you are stricken with a poysoned knife。
  KING。 A poysoned knife? what; shall the French king dye;
  Wounded and poysoned; both at once?
  EPERNOUNE。 O that that damned villaine were alive againe;
  That we might torture him with some new found death。
  BARTUS。 He died a death too good; the devill of hell
  Torture his wicked soule。
  KING。 Oh curse him not since he is dead。
  O the fatall poyson workes within my brest;
  Tell me Surgeon and flatter not; may I live?
  SURGEON。 Alas my Lord; your highnes cannot live。
  NAVARRE。 Surgeon; why saist thou so? the King may live。
  KING。 Oh no Navarre; thou must be King of France。
  NAVARRE。 Long may you live; and still be King of France。
  EPERNOUNE。 Or else dye Epernoune。
  KING。 Sweet Epernoune thy King must dye。 My Lords;
  Fight in the quarrell of this valiant Prince;
  For he is your lawfull King and my next heire:
  Valoyses lyne ends in my tragedie。
  Now let the house of Bourbon weare the crowne;
  And may it never end in bloud as mine hath done。
  Weep not sweet Navarre; but revenge my death。
  Ah Epernoune; is this thy love to me?
  Henry thy King wipes of these childish teares;
  And bids thee whet thy sword on Sextus bones;
  That it may keenly slice the Catholicks。
  He loves me not the best that sheds most teares;
  But he that makes most lavish of his bloud。
  Fire Paris where these trecherous rebels lurke。
  I dye Navarre; come beare me to my Sepulchre。
  Salute the Queene of England in my name;
  And tell her Henry dyes her faithfull freend。
  He dyes。
  NAVARRE。 Come Lords; take up the body of the King;
  That we may see it honourably interde:
  And then I vow so to revenge his death;
  That Rome and all those popish Prelates there;
  Shall curse the time that ere Navarre was King;
  And rulde in France by Henries fatall death。
  They march out with the body of the King; lying on foure
  mens shoulders with a dead march; drawingg weapons on
  the ground。
  FINIS。
  End