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• The Life and Death of King John: Dramatis PersonÆ.
• Act I.
• Scene I.—: A Room of State In the Palace.
• Act II.
• Scene I.—: France. Before the Walls of Angiers.
• Act III.
• Scene I.—: France. the French King’s Tent.
• Scene II.—: The Same. Plains Near Angiers.
• Scene III.—: The Same.
• Scene IV.—: The Same. the French King’s Tent.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.—: Northampton. a Room In the Castle.
• Scene II.—: The Same. a Room of State In the Palace.
• Scene III.—: The Same. Before the Castle.
• Act V.
• Scene I.—: The Same. a Room In the Palace.
• Scene II.—: A Plain, Near St. Edmundsbury. the French Camp.
• Scene III.—: The Same. a Field of Battle.
• Scene IV.—: The Same. Another Part of the Same.
• Scene V.—: The Same. the French Camp.
• Scene VI.—: An Open Place In the Neighbourhood of Swinstead Abbey.
• Scene VII.—: The Orchard of Swinstead Abbey.

Scene III.—

The Same. A Field of Battle.

Alarums. EnterKing JohnandHubert.

K. John.

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

Hub.

Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?

K. John.

This fever, that hath troubled me so long,

Lies heavy on me: O! my heart is sick.

Enter a Messenger.

Mess.

My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,

Desires your majesty to leave the field,

And send him word by me which way you go.

K. John.

Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.

Mess.

Be of good comfort: for the great supply

That was expected by the Dauphin here,

Are wrack’d three nights ago on Goodwin sands.

This news was brought to Richard but even now.

The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.

K. 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.