Glo. True, uncle.
Car. Are ye advis'd? [Aside to Gloucester.] The east side of the grove.
Glo. [Aside to the Cardinal.] Cardinal, I am with you. 48
King. Why, how now, uncle Gloucester!
Glo. Talking of hawking; nothing else, my lord.—
[Aside to the Cardinal.] Now, by God's mother, priest, I'll shave your crown
For this, or all my fence shall fail. 52
Car. [Aside to Gloucester.] Medice, teipsum;
Protector, see to 't well, protect yourself.
King. The winds grow high; so do your stomachs, lords.
How irksome is this music to my heart! 56
When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
I pray, my lords, let me compound this strife.
Enter one crying, ‘A Miracle.'
Glo. What means this noise?
Fellow, what miracle dost thou proclaim? 60
One. A miracle! a miracle!
Suf. Come to the king, and tell him what miracle.
One. Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine,
Within this half hour hath receiv'd his sight; 64
A man that ne'er saw in his life before.
King. Now, God be prais'd, that to believing souls
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair!
Enter the Mayor of Saint Albans, and his Brethren, bearing the man [Simpcox] between two in a chair [followed by Simpcox's wife and others].
46-48 Cf. n.
47 advis'd: clearly informed
52 fence: skill in fencing
53 Medice, teipsum: Doctor, cure thyself
55 stomachs: angers
57 jar: sound a discord
58 compound: settle, compose
63 Saint Alban's shrine; cf. n.
