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 might25
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 king30
Yet speaks and peradventure may recover.
Bast. Who didst thou leave to tend his majesty?[652]