3029Which 1400. yeares ago were naild,

3130For our aduantage on the bitter crosse.

3231But this our purpose now is twelue month old,

3332And bootelesse tis to tell you we wil go.

3433Therefore we meet not nowe: then let me heare

3534Of you my gentle Cosen Westmerland,

3635What yesternight our counsell did decree

3736In forwarding this deere expedience.

3837West. My liege, this haste was hot in question,

3938And many limits of the charge set down

4039But yesternight, when all athwart there came

4140A post from Wales, loden with heauy newes,

4241Whose worst was that the noble Mortimer,

4342Leading the men of Herdforshire to fight

4443Against the irregular, and wild Glendower,

4544Was by the rude hands of that Welchman taken,

4645A thousand of his people butchered,

4746Vpon whose dead corpes there was such misuse,

4847Such beastly shamelesse transformation

4948By those Welch-women done, as may not be

5049Without much shame, retould, or spoken of.

5150King. It seemes then that the tidings of this broile,

5251Brake off our businesse for the holy land.

5352West. This matcht with other did, my gratious L.

5453For more vneuen and vnwelcome newes

5554Came from the North, and thus it did import,

5655On holly rode day, the gallant Hotspur there,

5756Yong Harry Percy, and braue Archibold,

5857That euer valiant and approued Scot,

5958At Holmedon met, where they did spend

6059A sad and bloudy houre:

6160As by discharge of their artillery,

6261And shape of likelihood the newes was told:

6362For he that brought them in the very heat

6463And pride of their contention, did take horse

6564Vncertaine of the issue any way.

6665King. Here is deere, a true industrious friend,

6766Sir Walter Blunt new lighted from his horse,