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    • ACT V SCENE III

    
 Dramatis Personae 
 Act I   Scene I 
  
 Act III Scene I
 Act III Scene II
 Act III Scene III
 Act III Scene IV
 Act IV  Scene I 
 Act IV  Scene II
    
 Act IV  Scene III 
 Act V   Scene I 
 Act V   Scene II 
 Act V   Scene III 
 Act V   Scene IV 
 Act V   Scene V
 Act V   Scene VI
 Act V   Scene VII
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     Act V 

    
ACT V: SCENE III	The field of battle.

    
	Alarums. Enter KING JOHN and HUBERT

KING JOHN	How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.

HUBERT	Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?

KING JOHN	This fever, that hath troubled me so long,
	Lies heavy on me; O, my heart is sick!

	Enter a Messenger

Messenger	My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,
	Desires your majesty to leave the field
	And send him word by me which way you go.

KING JOHN	Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.

Messenger	Be of good comfort; for the great supply
	That was expected by the Dauphin here,
	Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.
	This news was brought to Richard but even now:
	The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.

KING JOHN	Ay me! this tyrant fever burns me up,
	And will not let me welcome this good news.
	Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight;
	Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint.

	Exeunt

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