_Bast._ And thou shalt find it, Dauphin, do not doubt. 180 [_Exeunt._ SCENE III. _The field of battle._ _Alarums. Enter_ KING JOHN _and_ HUBERT.[615] _K. John._ How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert. _Hub._ Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty? _K. John._ This fever, that hath troubled me so long, Lies heavy on me; O, my heart is sick! _Enter a_ Messenger. _Mess._ My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge, 5 Desires your majesty to leave the field And send him word by me which way you go. _K. John._ Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.[616] _Mess._ Be of good comfort; for the great supply That was expected by the Dauphin here, 10 Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.[617] This news was brought to Richard but even now: The French fight coldly, and retire themselves. _K. John._ Ay me! this tyrant fever burns me up,[618] And will not let me welcome this good news. 15 Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight;[616] Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint. [_Exeunt._ SCENE IV. _Another part of the field._[619] _Enter_ SALISBURY, PEMBROKE, _and_ BIGOT. _Sal._ I did not think the king so stored with friends. _Pem._ Up once again; put spirit in the French:[620] If they miscarry, we miscarry too.[620] _Sal._ That misbegotten devil, Faulconbridge, In spite of spite, alone upholds the day. 5 _Pem._ They say King John sore sick hath left the field. _Enter_ MELUN, _wounded_. _Mel._ Lead me to the revolts of England here. _Sal._ When we were happy we had other names. _Pem._ It is the Count Melun. _Sal._ Wounded to death. _Mel._ Fly, noble English, you are bought and sold; 10 Unthread the rude eye of rebellion[621] And welcome home again discarded faith. Seek out King John and fall before his feet; For if the French be lords of this loud day,[622] He means to recompense the pains you take 15 By cutting off your heads: thus hath he sworn And I with him, and many moe with me,[623] Upon the altar at Saint Edmundsbury;[624] Even on that altar where we swore to you Dear amity and everlasting love. 20 _Sal._ May this be possible? may this be true?