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How goes the day with us? O, tell me, Hubert.HUBERT
Badly, I fear. How fares your majesty?KING JOHN
This fever, that hath troubled me so long,Enter a Messenger
Lies heavy on me; O, my heart is sick!
My lord, your valiant kinsman, Faulconbridge,KING JOHN
Desires your majesty to leave the field
And send him word by me which way you go.
Tell him, toward Swinstead, to the abbey there.Messenger
Be of good comfort; for the great supplyKING JOHN
That was expected by the Dauphin here,
Are wreck'd three nights ago on Goodwin Sands.
This news was brought to Richard but even now:
The French fight coldly, and retire themselves.
Ay me! this tyrant fever burns me up,Exeunt
And will not let me welcome this good news.
Set on toward Swinstead: to my litter straight;
Weakness possesseth me, and I am faint.