Today’s Totally Random
Lines
This royal hand and mine are newly knit,
And the conjunction of our inward souls
Married in league, coupled and linkt
together
With all religious strength and sacred vows;
The latest breath that gave the sound of
words
The deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true
love
Between our kingdoms and our royal selves;
And even before this truce, but new before,-
No longer than we well could wash our
hands,
To clap this royal bargain up of peace,-
Heaven knows, they were besmear’d and
overstain’d
With slaughter’s pencil, where revenge did
paint
The fearful difference of incensed kings:
And shall these hands, so lately purged of
blood,
So newly join’d in love, so strong in
both,
Unyoke this seizure and this kind of regret?
King Philip
King John
Act III,
Scene i, Line 240
That’s a really
long line. I decided to work with the punctuated sentence. It’s all commas and semicolons
up to that final question mark, and therefore one sentence.
So, what’s King Philip saying with this really long sentence? He’s saying that he and King John just consummated a treaty, so do they really want to throw that out and go back to warring with each other. I’m not exactly sure who is pushing to throw the treaty out, or why, but the king is using sixteen lines to question that idea. Now if you look at it closely, and take a little time with the lines you can see that they're pretty clear and, of course, quite expressive, to say the least.
Go back and take a look
The first seven lines talk about the positivity of their relationship with the new treaty.
the
conjunction of our inward souls Married in league... religious
strength and sacred vows... deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true love
The next six talk about the horrible situation of war that existed before the treaty.
besmear’d and overstain’d With slaughter’s
pencil, where revenge did paint The fearful difference of incensed kings:
And the last three lines question why they would want to go back to that.
And shall these hands, so lately purged
of blood,
So newly join’d in love, so strong in
both,
Unyoke this seizure and this kind of regret?
Good for King Philip!
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