6867Staind with the variation of each soile,

6968Betwixt that Holmedon and this seat of ours:

7069And he hath brought vs smothe and welcom newes,

7170The Earle of Douglas is discomfited,

7271Ten thousand bould Scots, two and twenty knights

7372Balkt in their own bloud. Did sir Walter see

7473On Holmedons plaines, of prisoners Hotspur tooke

7574Mordake Earle of Fife, and eldest sonne

7675To beaten Douglas, and the Earle of Athol,

7776Of Murrey, Angus, and Menteith:

7877And is not this an honorable spoile?

7978A gallant prize? Ha coosen, is it not? In faith it is.

8079West. A conquest for a Prince to boast of.

8180King. Yea, there thou makst me sad, and makst me sinne

8281In enuy, that my Lord Northumberland

8382Should be the father to so blest a sonne:

8483A sonne, who is the theame of honors tongue,

8584Amongst a groue, the very straightest plant,

8685Who is sweet fortunes minion and her pride,

8786Whilst I by looking on the praise of him

8887See ryot and dishonour staine the brow

8988Of my young Harry. O that it could be prou'd

9089That some night tripping fairy had exchang'd,

9190In cradle clothes our children where they lay,

9291And cald mine Percy, his Plantagenet,

9392Then would I haue his Harry, and he mine:

9493But let him from my thoughts. What think you coose

9594Of this young Percies pride? The prisoners

9695Which he in this aduenture hath surprizd

9796To his own vse, he keepes and sends me word

9897I shal haue none but Mordake Earle of Fife.

9998West. This is his vncles teaching. This is Worcester,

10099Maleuolent to you in all aspects,

101100Which makes him prune himselfe, and bristle vp

102101The crest of youth against your dignity.

103102King. But I haue sent for him to answere this:

104103And for this cause a while we must neglect

105104Our holy purpose to Ierusalem.

A.3 Coosen