_Arth._ O, now you look like Hubert! all this while You were disguised.[455] _Hub._ Peace; no more. Adieu. Your uncle must not know but you are dead; I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports: And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure, 130 That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world, Will not offend thee. _Arth._ O heaven! I thank you, Hubert. _Hub._ Silence; no more: go closely in with me: Much danger do I undergo for thee. [_Exeunt._ SCENE II. KING JOHN'S _palace_. _Enter_ KING JOHN, PEMBROKE, SALISBURY, _and other_ Lords.[456] _K. John._ Here once again we sit, once again crown'd,[457] And looked upon, I hope, with cheerful eyes. _Pem._ This 'once again,' but that your highness pleased, Was once superfluous: you were crown'd before, And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off, 5 The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt; Fresh expectation troubled not the land With any long'd-for change or better state. _Sal._ Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, 10 To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 15 Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. _Pem._ But that your royal pleasure must be done, This act is as an ancient tale new told, And in the last repeating troublesome, Being urged at a time unseasonable. 20 _Sal._ In this the antique and well noted face Of plain old form is much disfigured; And, like a shifted wind unto a sail, It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about, Startles and frights consideration, 25 Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected,[458] For putting on so new a fashion'd robe. _Pem._ When workmen strive to do better than well,[459] They do confound their skill in covetousness;[460] And oftentimes excusing of a fault 30 Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault[461] Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.[461] _Sal._ To this effect, before you were new crown'd, 35 We breathed our counsel: but it pleased your highness To overbear it, and we are all well pleased,[462] Since all and every part of what we would Doth make a stand at what your highness will.[463]