The history
582560O the diuill take
such coo
soners, god forgiue me,
583561Good vncle tell your tale, I haue done.
584562Wor. Nay, if you haue not, to it againe,
585563We wil
stay your lei
sure.
586564Hot. I haue done Ifaith.
587565Wor. Then once more to your Scotti
sh pri
soners,
588566Deliuer them vp without their ran
some
straight,
589567And make the Douglas
sonne your only meane
590568For Powers in Scotland, which for diuers rea
sons
591569Which I
shall
send you written, be a
ssur'd
592570Wil ea
sely be granted you my Lord.
593571Your
sonne in Scotland being thus emploied,
594572Shal
secretly into the bo
some creepe
595573Of that
same noble prelat welbelou'd,
597575Hot. Of Yorke, is it not?
598576Wor. True, who beares hard
599577His brothers death at Bri
stow the lord Scroop,
600578I
speake not this in e
stimation,
601579As what I thinke might be, but what I know
602580Is ruminated, plotted, and
set downe,
603581And onely
staies but to behold the face
604582Of that occa
sion that
shal bring it on.
605583Hot. I
smell it. Vpon my life it will do well.
607584Nort. Before the game is afoote thou
still let
st slip.
608585Hot. Why, it cannot chu
se but be a noble plot,
609586And then the power of Scotland, and of Yorke,
610587To ioine with Mortimer, ha.
612589Hot. In faith it is exceedingly well aimd.
613590Wor. And tis no little rea
son bids vs
speed,
614591To
saue our heads by rai
sing of a head,
615592For beare our
selues as euen as we can,
616593The king will alwaies thinke him in our debt,
617594And thinke we thinke our
selues vn
sati
sfied,
618595Till he hath found a time to pay vs home.
619596And
see already how he doth begin
620597To make vs
strangers to his lookes of loue.
Hot.