The Life and Death of King John
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Excerpt:Controlement for controlement: so answer France. Chat. Then take my Kings defiance from my mouth,The farthest limit of my Embassie.K.Iohn. Beare mine to him, and so depart in peace,Be thou as lightning in the eies of France; For ere thou canst report, I will be there:The thunder of my Cannon shall be heard.So hence: be thou the trumpet of our wrath,And sullen presage of your owne decay:An honourable conduct let him haue,Pembroke looke too't: farewell Chattillion. Exit Chat. and Pem
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This edition is too authentic. It preserves Elizabethan spellings and oddities of typesetting - u's for v's and v's for u's, for instance. Elizabethan English is already challenging enough without these archaic spellings. This is why most editors do the reader the kindness of removing this useless obstacle by modernizing the spelling. And one can hardly think that Shakespeare would object to this practice, considering that he was inconsistent about spelling. Unless you're a scholar who wants to see how words were spelled in the late 16th century, you should do what I'm going to do -- look for another edition of this play.