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A FRAGMENT OF A TRAGEDY	A
ACT I	B
SCENE I Field of Battle	C
Alarum Enter King STEPHEN Knights and Soldiers	D
Stephen If shame can on a soldier's vein swoll n front	E
Spread deeper crimson than the battle's toil	F
Blush in your casing helmets for see see	A
Yonder my chivalry my pride of war	G
Wrench'd with an iron hand from firm array	H
Are routed loose about the plashy meads	I
Of honour forfeit O that my known voice	J
Could reach your dastard ears and fright you more	G
Fly cowards fly Glocester is at your backs	K
Throw your slack bridles o'er the flurried manes	L
Ply well the rowel with faint trembling heels	M
Scampering to death at last	N
First Knight The enemy	A
Bears his flaunt standard close upon their rear	O
Second Knight Sure of a bloody prey seeing the fens	M
Will swamp them girth deep	P
Stephen Over head and ears	M
No matter 'Tis a gallant enemy	A
How like a comet he goes streaming on	Q
But we must plague him in the flank hey friends	M
We are well breathed follow	R
Enter Earl BALDWIN and Soldiers as defeated	S
Stephen De Redvers	M
What is the monstrous bugbear that can fright	T
Baldwin	U
Baldwin No scare crow but the fortunate star	V
Of boisterous Chester whose fell truncheon now	W
Points level to the goal of victory	A
This way he comes and if you would maintain	X
Your person unaffronted by vile odds	M
	-
Take horse my Lord	Y
Stephen And which way spur for life	Z
Now I thank Heaven I am in the toils	M
That soldiers may bear witness how my arm	A2
Can burst the meshes Not the eagle more	G
Loves to beat up against a tyrannous blast	N
Than I to meet the torrent of my foes	M
This is a brag be 't so but if I fall	B2
Carve it upon my 'scutcheon'd sepulchre	G
On fellow soldiers Earl of Redvers back	C2
Not twenty Earls of Chester shall brow beat	D2
The diadem Exeunt Alarum	A2
	-
SCENE II Another part of the Field	E2
Trumpets sounding a Victory Enter GLOCESTER Knights and Forces	M
Glocester Now may we lift our bruised vizors up	F2
And take the flattering freshness of the air	G
While the wide din of battle dies away	H
Into times past yet to be echoed sure	G
In the silent pages of our chroniclers	M
First Knight Will Stephen's death be marked there my good	G2
Lord	Y
Or that we gave him lodging in yon towers	M
Glocester Fain would I know the great usurper's fate	H2
Enter two Captains severally	A
First Captain My Lord	Y
Second Captain Most noble Earl	I2
First Captain The King	J2
Second Captain The Empress greets	M
Glocester What of the King	J2
First Captain He sole and lone maintains	M
A hopeless bustle mid our swarming arms	M
And with a nimble savageness attacks	M
Escapes makes fiercer onset then anew	K2
Eludes death giving death to most that dare	G
Trespass within the circuit of his sword	Y
He must by this have fallen Baldwin is taken	U
And for the Duke of Bretagne like a stag	L2
He flies for the Welsh beagles to hunt down	M2
God save the Empress	M
Glocester Now our dreaded Queen	N2
What message from her Highness	M
Second Captain Royal Maud	O2
From the throng'd towers of Lincoln hath look'd down	M2
Like Pallas from the walls of Ilion	M2
And seen her enemies havock'd at her feet	D2
She greets most noble Glocester from her heart	P2
Intreating him his captains and brave knights	M
To grace a banquet The high city gates	M
Are envious which shall see your triumph pass	M
The streets are full of music	Q2
Enter Second Knight	T
Glocester Whence come you	K2
Second Knight From Stephen my good Prince Stephen	M2
Stephen	M2
Glocester Why do you make such echoing of his name	A2
Second Knight Because I think my lord he is no man	M2
But a fierce demon Anointed safe from wounds	M
And misbaptized with a Christian name	A2
Glocester A mighty soldier Does he still hold out	R2
Second Knight He shames our victory His valour still	S2
Keeps elbow room amid our eager swords	M
And holds our bladed falchions all aloof	T2
His gleaming battle axe being slaughter sick	Q2
Smote on the morion of a Flemish knight	T
Broke short in his hand upon the which he flung	U2
The heft away with such a vengeful force	M
	-
It paunch'd the Earl of Chester's horse who then	M2
Spleen hearted came in full career at him	A2
Glocester Did no one take him at a vantage then	M2
Second Knight Three then with tiger leap upon him flew	K2
Whom with his sword swift drawn and nimbly held	V2
He stung away again and stood to breathe	W2
Smiling Anon upon him rush'd once more	G
A throng of foes and in this renew'd strife	Z
My sword met his and snapp'd off at the hilts	M
Glocester Come lead me to this Mars and let us move	X2
In silence not insulting his sad doom	A2
With clamorous trumpets To the Empress bear	G
My salutation as befits the time	A2
Exeunt GLOCESTER and Forces	M
	-
SCENE III The Field of Battle Enter STEPHEN unarmed	Y2
Stephen Another sword And what if I could seize	M
One from Bellona's gleaming armoury	G
Or choose the fairest of her sheaved spears	M
Where are my enemies Here close at hand	Z2
Here come the testy brood O for a sword	Y
I'm faint a biting sword A noble sword	Y
A hedge stake or a ponderous stone to hurl	I2
With brawny vengeance like the labourer Cain	M2
Come on Farewell my kingdom and all hail	A3
Thou superb plum'd and helmeted renown	M2
All hail I would not truck this brilliant day	H
To rule in Pylos with a Nestor's beard	B3
Come on	M2
Enter DE KAIMS and Knights c	A
De Kaims Is 't madness or a hunger after death	C3
That makes thee thus unarm'd throw taunts at us	M
Yield Stephen or my sword's point dip in	M2
'he gloomy current of a traitor's heart	P2
Stephen Do it De Kaims I will not budge an inch	D3
De Kaims Yes of thy madness thou shalt take the meed	P2
Stephen Darest thou	W
De Kaims How dare against a man disarmed	P2
Stephen What weapons has the lion but himself	E3
Come not near me De Kaims for by the price	M
Of all the glory I have won this day	P2
Being a king I will not yield alive	F3
To any but the second man of the realm	A2
Robert of Glocester	G
De Kaims Thou shalt vail to me	A
Stephen Shall I when I have sworn against it sir	G
Thou think'st it brave to take a breathing king	J2
That on a court day bow'd to haughty Maud	P2
The awed presence chamber may be bold	P2
To whisper there's the man who took alive	F3
Stephen me prisoner Certes De Kaims	M
The ambition is a noble one	M2
De Kaims 'Tis true	G
And Stephen I must compass it	P2
Stephen No no	M2
Do not tempt me to throttle you on the gorge	G3
Or with my gauntlet crush your hollow breast	P2
Just when your knighthood is grown ripe and full	H3
For lordship	F2
A Soldier Is an honest yeoman's spear	G
Of no use at a need Take that	P2
Stephen Ah dastard	P2
De Kaims What you are vulnerable my prisoner I	B
Stephen No not yet I disclaim it and demand	P2
Death as a sovereign right unto a king	J2
Who 'sdains to yield to any but his peer	G
If not in title yet in noble deeds	M
The Earl of Glocester Stab to the hilts De Kaims	M
For I will never by mean hands be led	P2
From this so famous field Do ye hear Be quick	Q2
Trumpets Enter the Earl of CHESTER and Knights	M
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SCENE IV A Presence Chamber Queen MAUD in a Chair of State the	I3
Earls of GLOCESTER and CHESTER Lords Attendants	M
Maud Glocester no more I will behold that Boulogne	M2
Set him before me Not for the poor sake	J3
Of regal pomp and a vain glorious hour	G
As thou with wary speech yet near enough	K3
Hast hinted	P2
Glocester Faithful counsel have I given	M2
If wary for your Highness' benefit	P2
Maud The Heavens forbid that I should not think so	M
For by thy valour have I won this realm	A2
Which by thy wisdom I will ever keep	F2
To sage advisers let me ever bend	P2
'A meek attentive ear so that they treat	P2
Of the wide kingdom's rule and government	P2
Not trenching on our actions personal	S2
Advis'd not school'd I would be and henceforth	L3
Spoken to in clear plain and open terms	M
Not side ways sermon'd at	P2
Glocester Then in plain terms	M
Once more for the fallen king	J2
Maud Your pardon Brother	G
I would no more of that for as I said	P2
Tis not for worl	S2

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