The Works of Christopher Marlowe

The Massacre at Paris

Act: 1 Scene: 22
NAVARRE.
It is enough if that Navarre may be
Esteemed faithfull to the King of France:
Whose service he may still commaund to death.
NAVARRE.
What, is your highnes hurt?
NAVARRE.
God shield your grace from such a sodaine death:
Goe call a surgeon hether strait.
NAVARRE.
Pleaseth your grace to let the Surgeon search your wound.
NAVARRE.
These words revive my thoughts and comfort me,
To see your highnes in this vertuous minde.
NAVARRE.
Surgeon, why saist thou so? the King may live.
NAVARRE.
Long may you live, and still be King of France.
NAVARRE.
Come Lords, take up the body of the King,
That we may see it honourably interde:
And then I vow so to revenge his death,
That Rome and all those popish Prelates there,
Shall curse the time that ere Navarre was King,
And rulde in France by Henries fatall death.