_Mess._ The Count Melun is slain; the English lords 10 By his persuasion are again fall'n off,[641] And your supply, which you have wish'd so long,[642] Are cast away and sunk on Goodwin Sands. _Lew._ Ah, foul shrewd news! beshrew thy very heart! I did not think to be so sad to-night[643] 15 As this hath made me. Who was he that said King John did fly an hour or two before The stumbling night did part our weary powers? _Mess._ Whoever spoke it, it is true, my lord. _Lew._ Well; keep good quarter and good care to-night: 20 The day shall not be up so soon as I, To try the fair adventure of to-morrow. [_Exeunt._ SCENE VI. _An open place in the neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey._[644] _Enter the_ BASTARD _and_ HUBERT, _severally_. _Hub._ Who's there? speak, ho! speak quickly, or I shoot. _Bast._ A friend. What art thou? _Hub._ Of the part of England. _Bast._ Whither dost thou go?[645][646] _Hub._ What's that to thee? why may not I demand[646][647] Of thine affairs, as well as thou of mine?[646][647] 5 _Bast._ Hubert, I think?[646][647] _Hub._ Thou hast a perfect thought: I will upon all hazards well believe Thou art my friend, that know'st my tongue so well. Who art thou? _Bast._ Who thou wilt: and if thou please,[648] Thou mayst befriend me so much as to think 10 I come one way of the Plantagenets. _Hub._ Unkind remembrance! thou and eyeless night[649] Have done me shame: brave soldier, pardon me, That any accent breaking from thy tongue Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine ear. 15 _Bast._ Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad? _Hub._ Why, here walk I in the black brow of night, To find you out. _Bast._ Brief, then; and what's the news? _Hub._ O, my sweet sir, news fitting to the night, Black, fearful, comfortless and horrible. 20 _Bast._ Show me the very wound of this ill news: I am no woman, I'll not swoon at it.[650] _Hub._ The king, I fear, is poison'd by a monk: I left him almost speechless; and broke out To acquaint you with this evil, that you might 25 The better arm you to the sudden time, Than if you had at leisure known of this.[651] _Bast._ How did he take it? who did taste to him? _Hub._ A monk, I tell you; a resolved villain, Whose bowels suddenly burst out: the king 30 Yet speaks and peradventure may recover. _Bast._ Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?[652]