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    KING JOHN
    Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us?

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      CHATILLON
      Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France
      In my behavior to the majesty,
      The borrow'd majesty, of England here.

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        QUEEN ELINOR
        A strange beginning: 'borrow'd majesty!'

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          king john:
          silence, good mother; hear the embassy.

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            CHATILLON
            Philip of France, in right and true behalf
            Of thy deceased brother Geffrey's son,
            Arthur Plantagenet, lays most lawful claim
            To this fair island and the territories,
            To Ireland, Poictiers, Anjou, Touraine, Maine,
            Desiring thee to lay aside the sword
            Which sways usurpingly these several titles,
            And put these same into young Arthur's hand,
            Thy nephew and right royal sovereign.

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              KING JOHN
              What follows if we disallow of this?

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                CHATILLON
                The proud control of fierce and bloody war,
                To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld.

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                  KING JOHN
                  Here have we war for war and blood for blood,
                  Controlment for controlment: so answer France.

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                    CHATILLON
                    Then take my king's defiance from my mouth,
                    The farthest limit of my embassy.

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                      KING JOHN
                      Bear mine to him, and so depart in peace:
                      Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France;
                      For ere thou canst report I will be there,
                      The thunder of my cannon shall be heard:
                      So hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath
                      And sullen presage of your own decay.
                      An honourable conduct let him have:
                      Pembroke, look to 't. Farewell, Chatillon.

                      Exeunt CHATILLON and PEMBROKE

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