389370And I beseech you, let not his report

390371Come currant for an accusation

391372Betwixt my loue and your high maiestie.

392373Blunt. The circumstance considered, good my lord,

393374What ere Lord Harry Percie then had said

394375To such a person, and in such a place,

395376At such a time, with all the rest retold,

396377May reasonably die, and neuer rise

397378To do him wrong, or any way impeach

398379What then he said, so he vnsay it now.

399380King. Why yet he doth denie his prisoners,

400381But with prouiso and exception,

401382That we at our owne charge shall ransome straight

402383His brother in law, the foolish Mortimer,

403384Who on my soule, hath wilfully betraid

404385The liues of those, that he did lead to fight

405386Against that great Magitian, damnd Glendower,

406387Whose daughter as we heare, that Earle of March

407388Hath lately married: shall our coffers then

408389Be emptied, to redeeme a traitor home?

409390Shall we buy treason? and indent with feares

410391When they haue lost and forfeited themselues?

411392No, on the barren mountaines let him starue:

412393For I shall neuer hold that man my friend,

413394Whose tongue shall aske me for one penny cost

414395To ransome home reuolted Mortimer,

415396Hot. Reuolted Mortimer:

416397He neuer did fall off, my soueraigne liege

417398But by the chance of war, to proue that true

418399Needs no more but one tongue: for all those wounds,

419400Those mouthed wounds which valiantly he tooke,

420401When on the gentle Seuerns siedgie banke,

421402In single opposition hand to hand,

422403He did confound the best part of an houre,

423404In changing hardiment with great Glendower,

424405Three times they breathd, & three times did they drinke

425406Vpon agreement of swift Seuerns floud,

426407Who then affrighted with their bloudie lookes,

B.iii Ran