Hie, good Sir Michael, bear this sealèd brief

4.4.22589With wingèd haste to the Lord Marshal,

4.4.32590This to my cousin Scrope, and all the rest

4.4.42591To whom they are directed. If you knew

4.4.52592How much they do import, you would make haste.

My good lord, I guess their tenor.

My good lord, I guess their tenor. Like enough you do.

4.4.72596Tomorrow, good Sir Michael, is a day

4.4.82597Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men

4.4.92598Must bide the touch. For, sir, at Shrewsbury,

4.4.102599As I am truly given to understand,

4.4.112600The king with mighty and quick-raisèd power

4.4.122601Meets with Lord Harry. And I fear, Sir Michael,

4.4.132602What with the sickness of Northumberland,

4.4.142603Whose power was in the first proportion,

4.4.152604And what with Owen Glendower's absence thence,

4.4.162605Who with them was a rated sinew too,

4.4.172606And comes not in, overruled by prophecies,

4.4.182607I fear the power of Percy is too weak

4.4.192608To wage an instant trial with the king.

Why, my good lord, you need not fear,

4.4.212610There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer.

No, Mortimer is not there.

But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy;

4.4.242613And there is my lord of Worcester, and a head

4.4.252614Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.

And so there is. But yet the king hath drawn

4.4.272617The special head of all the land together:

4.4.282618The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster,

4.4.292619The noble Westmorland, and warlike Blunt,

4.4.302620And many more corrivals, and dear men

4.4.312621Of estimation and command in arms.

Doubt not, my lord, they shall be well opposed.

I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear;

4.4.342624And to prevent the worst, Sir Michael, speed.

4.4.352625For if Lord Percy thrive not, ere the king

4.4.362626Dismiss his power he means to visit us,

4.4.372627For he hath heard of our confederacy,

4.4.382628And 'tis but wisdom to make strong against him.

4.4.392629Therefore make haste. I must go write again

4.4.402630To other friends; and so farewell, Sir Michael.