How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line)
Quote #7
KING PHILIP
And shall these hands, so lately purged of blood,
So newly joined in love, so strong in both,
Unyoke this seizure and this kind regreet?
Play fast and loose with faith? So jest with heaven?
Make such unconstant children of ourselves
As now again to snatch our palm from palm,
Unswear faith sworn, and on the marriage bed
Of smiling peace to march a bloody host
And make a riot on the gentle brow
Of true sincerity? O holy sir,
My reverend father, let it not me so! (3.1.249-259)
In this series of rhetorical questions, King Philip asks Pandolf if he will really betray his new ally King John. Unfortunately, the answer to King Philip's questions is "Yes." (Metaphorically speaking, of course—they don't literally fight a battle on Louis and Blanche's marriage-bed.) Yup, commodity will do that to you.
Quote #8
KING JOHN
Doth Arthur live? O, haste thee to the peers,
Throw this report on their incensèd rage,
And make them tame to their obedience.
Forgive the comment that my passion made
Upon thy feature, for my rage was blind,
And foul imaginary eyes of blood
Presented thee more hideous than thou art.
O, answer not, but to my closet bring
The angry lords with all expedient haste.
I conjure thee but slowly; run more fast. (4.2.272-281)
Wait, where's the betrayal here? Yep, that's right: there's no betrayal mentioned here. Then why did we put it in? Well, it's because even though John doesn't mention it, he just got betrayed by Hubert, when Hubert refused to carry out the king's order to murder Arthur. The fact that King John doesn't say anything about this shows that betrayal isn't always the worst thing in the world; sometimes, it can turn out for the best.
Quote #9
SALISBURY
Upon our sides it never shall be broken.
And, noble dauphin, albeit we swear
A voluntary zeal and an unurged faith
To your proceedings, yet believe me, prince,
I am not glad that such a sore of time
Should seek a plaster by contemned revolt,
And heal the inveterate canker of one wound
By making many. O, it grieves my soul
That I must draw this metal from my side
To be a widow-maker! O, and there
Where honorable rescue and defense
Cries out upon the name of Salisbury!
But such is the infection of the time
That for the health and physic of our right,
We cannot deal but with the very hand
Of stern injustice and confusèd wrong. (5.2.8-23).
In these lines, Salisbury shows that, even though he has broken his loyalty to King John, he disapproves of betrayal in principle; it just doesn't sit well with him. Louis will later In praise Salisbury for his words, saying that they show him to be an honorable man. The irony, of course, is that Louis actually plans to have Salisbury and the other English lords murdered after the completion of the military expedition (as you can see in the next quotation). Why would Louis want to do this?