Laer. None but his Enemies.
King. Will you know them then.
La. To his good Friends, thus wide Ile ope my Armes:
And like the kinde Life-rend'ring Politician,[4]
[Sidenote: life-rendring Pelican,]
Repast them with my blood.[5]
King. Why now you speake
Like a good Childe,[6] and a true Gentleman.
That I am guiltlesse of your Fathers death,
And am most sensible in greefe for it,[7] [Sidenote: sencibly]
[Footnote 1:
'Who shall prevent you?'
'My own will only—not all the world,'
or,
'Who will support you?'
'My will. Not all the world shall prevent me,'—
so playing on the two meanings of the word stay. Or it might mean: 'Not all the world shall stay my will.']
[Footnote 2: swoop-stake—sweepstakes.]