[555] in] at Rowe.
[556] Exeunt.] Exit. Ff. Exeunt; Hubert bearing out Arthur. Collier (Collier MS.).
[ACT V.]
Scene I. King John's palace.
Enter King John, Pandulph, and Attendants.[557]
K. John. Thus have I yielded up into your hand
The circle of my glory. [Giving the crown.[558]
Pand. Take again
From this my hand, as holding of the pope[559]
Your sovereign greatness and authority.
K. John. Now keep your holy word: go meet the French,5
And from his holiness use all your power
To stop their marches 'fore we are inflamed.[560]
Our discontented counties do revolt;
Our people quarrel with obedience,
Swearing allegiance and the love of soul[561]10
To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.
This inundation of mistemper'd humour[562]
Rests by you only to be qualified:
Then pause not; for the present time's so sick,
That present medicine must be minister'd,15
Or overthrow incurable ensues.[563]
Pand. It was my breath that blew this tempest up.
Upon your stubborn usage of the pope;
But since you are a gentle convertite,
My tongue shall hush again this storm of war20
And make fair weather in your blustering land.
On this Ascension-day, remember well,
Upon your oath of service to the pope,
Go I to make the French lay down their arms. [Exit.