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sir thomas more-第4部分
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CLOWN。
By a halfpenny loaf; a day; troy weight。
LINCOLN。
They bring in strange roots; which is merely to the undoing of poor
prentices; for what's a sorry parsnip to a good heart?
WILLIAMSON。
Trash; trash; they breed sore eyes; and tis enough to infect the city
with the palsey。
LINCOLN。
Nay; it has infected it with the palsey; for these bastards of dung;
as you know they grow in dung; have infected us; and it is our
infection will make the city shake; which partly comes through the
eating of parsnips。
CLOWN。
True; and pumpkins together。
SERGEANT。
What say ye to the mercy of the king?
Do ye refuse it?
LINCOLN。
You would have us upon this; would you? no; marry; do we not;
we accept of the king's mercy; but we will show no mercy upon the
strangers。
SERGEANT。
You are the simplest things that ever stood
In such a question。
LINCOLN。
How say ye now; prentices? prentices simple! down with him!
ALL。
Prentices simple! prentices simple!
'Enter the Lord Mayor; Surrey; Shrewsbury; More。'
LORD MAYOR。
Hold! in the king's name; hold!
SURREY。
Friends; masters; countrymen
LORD MAYOR。
Peace; how; peace! I charge you; keep the peace!
SHREWSBURY。
My masters; countrymen
WILLIAMSON。
The noble earl of Shrewsbury; let's hear him。
GEORGE。
We'll hear the earl of Surrey。
LINCOLN。
The earl of Shrewsbury。
GEORGE。
We'll hear both。
ALL。
Both; both; both; both!
LINCOLN。
Peace; I say; peace! are you men of wisdom; or what are you?
SURREY。
What you will have them; but not men of wisdom。
ALL。
We'll not hear my lord of Surrey; no; no; no; no; no! Shrewsbury;
Shrewsbury!
MORE。
Whiles they are o'er the bank of their obedience;
Thus will they bear down all things。
LINCOLN。
Sheriff More speaks; shall we hear Sheriff More speak?
DOLL。
Let's hear him: a keeps a plentyful shrievaltry; and a made my
brother Arthur Watchins Seriant Safes yeoman: let's hear Shrieve
More。
ALL。
Shrieve More; More; More; Shrieve More!
MORE。
Even by the rule you have among yourselves;
Command still audience。
ALL。
Surrey; Surrey! More; More!
LINCOLN:
Peace; peace; silence; peace。
GEORGE。
Peace; peace; silence; peace。
MORE。
You that have voice and credit with the number
Command them to a stillness。
LINCOLN。
A plague on them; they will not hold their peace; the dual cannot
rule them。
MORE。
Then what a rough and riotous charge have you;
To lead those that the dual cannot rule?
Good masters; hear me speak。
DOLL。
Aye; by th' mass; will we; More: th' art a good housekeeper; and I
thank thy good worship for my brother Arthur Watchins。
ALL。
Peace; peace。
MORE。
Look; what you do offend you cry upon;
That is; the peace: not one of you here present;
Had there such fellows lived when you were babes;
That could have topped the peace; as now you would;
The peace wherein you have till now grown up
Had been ta'en from you; and the bloody times
Could not have brought you to the state of men。
Alas; poor things; what is it you have got;
Although we grant you get the thing you seek?
GEORGE。
Marry; the removing of the strangers; which cannot choose but
much advantage the poor handicrafts of the city。
MORE。
Grant them removed; and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers;
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage;
Plodding tooth ports and costs for transportation;
And that you sit as kings in your desires;
Authority quite silent by your brawl;
And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;
What had you got? I'll tell you: you had taught
How insolence and strong hand should prevail;
How order should be quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an aged man;
For other ruffians; as their fancies wrought;
With self same hand; self reasons; and self right;
Would shark on you; and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another。
DOLL。
Before God; that's as true as the Gospel。
LINCOLN。
Nay; this is a sound fellow; I tell you: let's mark him。
MORE。
Let me set up before your thoughts; good friends;
On supposition; which if you will mark;
You shall perceive how horrible a shape
Your innovation bears: first; tis a sin
Which oft the apostle did forewarn us of;
Urging obedience to authority;
And twere no error; if I told you all;
You were in arms against your God himself。
ALL。
Marry; God forbid that!
MORE。
Nay; certainly you are;
For to the king God hath his office lent
Of dread; of justice; power and command;
Hath bid him rule; and willed you to obey;
And; to add ampler majesty to this;
He hath not only lent the king his figure;
His throne and sword; but given him his own name;
Calls him a god on earth。 What do you; then;
Rising gainst him that God himself installs;
But rise against God? what do you to your souls
In doing this? O; desperate as you are;
Wash your foul minds with tears; and those same hands;
That you like rebels lift against the peace;
Lift up for peace; and your unreverent knees;
Make them your feet to kneel to be forgiven!
Tell me but this: what rebel captain;
As mutinies are incident; by his name
Can still the rout? who will obey a traitor?
Or how can well that proclamation sound;
When there is no addition but a rebel
To qualify a rebel? You'll put down strangers;
Kill them; cut their throats; possess their houses;
And lead the majesty of law in line;
To slip him like a hound。 Say now the king
(As he is clement; if th' offender mourn)
Should so much come to short of your great trespass
As but to banish you; whether would you go?
What country; by the nature of your error;
Should give you harbor? go you to France or Flanders;
To any German province; to Spain or Portugal;
Nay; any where that not adheres to England;
Why; you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper;
That; breaking out in hideous violence;
Would not afford you an abode on earth;
Whet their detested knives against your throats;
Spurn you like dogs; and like as if that God
Owed not nor made not you; nor that the claimants
Were not all appropriate to your comforts;
But chartered unto them; what would you think
To be thus used? this is the strangers case;
And this your mountanish inhumanity。
ALL。
Faith; a says true: let's do as we may be done to。
LINCOLN。
We'll be ruled by you; Master More; if you'll stand our friend to
procure our pardon。
MORE。
Submit you to these noble gentlemen;
Entreat their mediation to the king;
Give up yourself to form; obey the magistrate;
And there's no doubt but mercy may be found;
If you so seek。
To persist in it is present death: but; if you
Yield yourselves; no doubt what punishment
You in simplicity have incurred; his highness
In mercy will most graciously pardon。
ALL。
We yield; and desire his highness' mercy。
'They lay by their weapons。'
MORE。
No doubt his majesty will grant it you:
But you must yield to go to several prisons;
Till that his highness' will be further known。
ALL。
Most willingly; whether you will have us。
SHREWSBURY。
Lord Mayor; let them be sent to several prisons;
And there; in any case; be well intreated。
My lord of Surrey; please you to take horse;
And ride to Cheapside; where the aldermen
Are with their several companies in arms;
Will them to go unto their several wards;
Both for the stay of furth mutiny;
And for the apprehending of such persons
As shall contend。
SURREY。
I go; my noble lord。
'Exit Surrey。'
SHREWSBURY。
We'll straight go tell his highness these good news;
Withal; Shrieve More; I'll tell him how your breath
Hath ransomed many a subject from sad death。
'Exit Shrewsbury and Cholmley。'
LORD MAYOR。
Lincoln and Sherwin; you shall both to Newgate;
The rest unto the Counters。
PALMER。
Go guard them hence: a little breath well spent
Cheats expectation in his fairest event。
DOLL。
Well; Sheriff More; thou hast done more with thy good words than
all they could with their weapons: give me thy hand; keep thy
promise now for the king's pardon; or; by the Lord; I'll call thee a
plain coney…catcher。
LINCOLN。
Farewell; Shrieve More; and as we yield by thee;
So make our peace; then thou dealst honestly。
CLOWN。
Aye; and save us from the gallows; else a devil's double honestly!
'They are led away。'
LORD MAYOR。
Master Shrieve More; you have preserved the city
From a most dangerous fierce commotion;
For; if this limb of riot here in St。 Martins
Had joined with other branches of the city
That did begin to kindle; twould have bred
Great rage; that rage much murder would have fed。
Not steel; but eloquence hath wrought this good:
You have redeemed us from much threatened blood。
MORE。
My lord and brethren; what I here have spoke;
My country's love; and next the city's care;
Enjoined me to; which since it thus prevails;
Think; God hath made weak More his instrument
To thwart sedition's violent intent。
I think twere best; my lord; some two hours hence
We meet at the Guildhall; and there determine
That thorough every ward the watch be clad
In armor; but especially proud
That at the city gates selected men;
Substantial citizens; do ward tonight;
For fear of further mischief。
LORD MAYOR。
It shall be so:
But yond me thinks my lord of Shrewsbury。
'Enter Shrewsbury。'
SHREWSBURY。
My lord; his majesty sends loving thanks
To you; your brethren; and his faithful subjects;
Your careful citizens。But; Master More; to you
A rougher; yet as kind; a salutation:
A knights creation is this knightly steel。
Rise up; Sir Thomas More。
MORE。
I thank his highness for thus honoring me。
SHREWSBURY。
This is but first taste of his princely favor:
For it hath pleased his high majesty
(Noting your wisdom and deserving merit)
To put this staff of honor in your hand;
For he hath chose you of his Privy Council。
MORE。
My lord; for to deny my sovereign's bounty
Were to drop precious stones into the heaps
Whence they first came;
To urge my imperfections in excuse;
Were all as stale as custom: no; my lord;
My service is my kings; good reason why;
Since life or death hangs on our sovereign's eye
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