_Bast._ One that will play the devil, sir, with you,[98] 135 An a' may catch your hide and you alone:[98][104] You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,[98] Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard:[98] I'll smoke your skin-coat, an I catch you right;[98][105] Sirrah, look to't; i' faith, I will, i' faith.[98] 140 _Blanch._ O, well did he become that lion's robe[98] That did disrobe the lion of that robe![98] _Bast._ It lies as sightly on the back of him[98] As great Alcides' shows upon an ass:[98][106] But, ass, I'll take that burthen from your back,[98] 145 Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.[98] _Aust._ What cracker is this same that deafs our ears[98] With this abundance of superfluous breath?[98] _K. Phi._ Lewis, determine what we shall do straight.[98][107] _Lew._ Women and fools, break off your conference.[98][108] 150 King John, this is the very sum of all; England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,[109] In right of Arthur do I claim of thee:[110] Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms? _K. John._ My life as soon: I do defy thee, France. 155 Arthur of Bretagne, yield thee to my hand;[111] And out of my dear love I'll give thee more Than e'er the coward hand of France can win: Submit thee, boy.[112] _Eli._ Come to thy grandam, child.[112] _Const._ Do, child, go to it grandam, child;[112][113][114] 160 Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will[112][114] Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig:[112] There's a good grandam.[112] _Arth._ Good my mother, peace![112] I would that I were low laid in my grave:[112] I am not worth this coil that's made for me.[112] 165 _Eli._ His mother shames him so, poor boy, he weeps.[112] _Const._ Now shame upon you, whether she does or no![112][115] His grandam's wrongs, and not his mother's shames,[112][116] Draws those heaven-moving pearls from his poor eyes,[112][117] Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee;[112] 170 Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall be bribed[112][118] To do him justice and revenge on you.[112] _Eli._ Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth![112] _Const._ Thou monstrous injurer of heaven and earth![112] Call not me slanderer; thou and thine usurp[112][119] 175 The dominations, royalties and rights[112][120] Of this oppressed boy: this is thy eld'st son's son,[112][121] Infortunate in nothing but in thee:[112] Thy sins are visited in this poor child;[112][122] The canon of the law is laid on him,[112] 180 Being but the second generation[112] Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb.[112] _K. John._ Bedlam, have done.[112][123]