Aust. What the devil art thou?[98]
Bast. One that will play the devil, sir, with you,[98]135
An a' may catch your hide and you alone:[98][104]
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes,[98]
Whose valour plucks dead lions by the beard:[98]
I'll smoke your skin-coat, an I catch you right;[98][105]
Sirrah, look to't; i' faith, I will, i' faith.[98]140
Blanch. O, well did he become that lion's robe[98]
That did disrobe the lion of that robe![98]
Bast. It lies as sightly on the back of him[98]
As great Alcides' shows upon an ass:[98][106]
But, ass, I'll take that burthen from your back,[98]145
Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack.[98]
Aust. What cracker is this same that deafs our ears[98]
With this abundance of superfluous breath?[98]
K. Phi. Lewis, determine what we shall do straight.[98][107]
Lew. Women and fools, break off your conference.[98][108]150
King John, this is the very sum of all;
England and Ireland, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,[109]
In right of Arthur do I claim of thee:[110]
Wilt thou resign them and lay down thy arms?
K. John. My life as soon: I do defy thee, France.155
Arthur of Bretagne, yield thee to my hand;[111]
And out of my dear love I'll give thee more
Than e'er the coward hand of France can win:
Submit thee, boy.[112]
Eli. Come to thy grandam, child.[112]
Const. Do, child, go to it grandam, child;[112][113][114]160
Give grandam kingdom, and it grandam will[112][114]
Give it a plum, a cherry, and a fig:[112]
There's a good grandam.[112]