King John Act 5 Scene 1 William Shakespeare

                                                   Act V

                                                SCENE I

                                       KING JOHN’S PALACE

Enter KING JOHN, CARDINAL PANDULPH, and Attendants

KING JOHN
Thus have I yielded up into your hand
The circle of my glory.

Giving the crown

CARDINAL PANDULPH
Take again
From this my hand, as holding of the pope
Your sovereign greatness and authority.

KING JOHN
Now keep your holy word: go meet the French,
And from his holiness use all your power
To stop their marches fore we are inflamed.
Our discontented counties do revolt;
Our people quarrel with obedience,
Swearing allegiance and the love of soul
To stranger blood, to foreign royalty.
This inundation of mistemper'd humour
Rests by you only to be qualified:
Then pause not; for the present time's so sick,
That present medicine must be minister'd,
Or overthrow incurable ensues.