22342040Per. Do so, and tis wel. What letters hast thou there?

22352041I can but thanke you.

22362042Mes. These letters come from your father.

22372043Per. Letters from him, why comes he not himselfe?

22392044Mes. He cannot come my lord, he is grieuous sicke.

22412045Per. Zounds, how has he the leisure to be sicke

22422046In such a iustling time, who leads his power?

22432047Vnder whose gouernment come they along?

22442048Mes. His letters beares his mind, not I my mind.

22452049Wor. I preethe tel me, doth he keepe his bed?

22462050Mes. He did my Lord, foure daies ere I set forth,

22472051And at the time of my departure thence,

22482052He was much fearde by his Phisitions.

22492053Wor. I would the state of time had first been whole,

22502054Eare he by sicknesse had bin visited,

22512055His health was neuer better worth then now.

22522056Per. Sicke now, droupe now, this sicknes doth infect

22532057The very life bloud of our enterprise,

22542058Tis catching hither euen to our campe,

22552059He writes me here that inward sicknesse,

22562060And that his friends by deputation

22572061Could not so soone be drawn, nor did he thinke it meet

22582062To lay so dangerous and deare a trust

22592063On any soule remoou'd but on his own,

22602064Yet doth he giue vs bold aduertisement,

22612065That with our small coniunction we should on,

22622066To see how fortune is disposd to vs,

22632067For as he writes there is no quailing now,

22642068Because the king is certainly possest

22652069Of al our purposes, what say you to it?

22662070Wor. Your fathers sicknesse is a maime to vs.

22672071Per. A perillous gash, a very limbe lopt off,

22682072And yet in faith it is not, his present want

22692073Seemes more then we shal find it: were it good

22702074To set the exact wealth of al our states

22712075Al at one cast? to set so rich a maine

22722076On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre?

22732077It were not good for therein should we read

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