1746 Glo. Lord Bishop set the Crowne vpon his head.

1747 Win. God saue King Henry of that name the sixt.

1748 Glo. Now Gouernour of Paris take your oath,

1749That you elect no other King but him;

1750Esteeme none Friends, but such as are his Friends,

1751And none your Foes, but such as shall pretend

1752Malicious practises against his State:

1753This shall ye do, so helpe you righteous God.

1755 Fal. My gracious Soueraigne, as I rode from Calice,

1756To haste vnto your Coronation:

1757A Letter was deliuer'd to my hands,

1758Writ to your Grace, from th'Duke of Burgundy.

1759 Tal. Shame to the Duke of Burgundy, and thee :

1760I vow'd (base Knight) when I did meete the next,

1761To teare the Garter from thy Crauens legge,

1762Which I haue done, because (vnworthily)

1763Thou was't installed in that High Degree.

1764Pardon me Princely Henry, and the rest:

1765This Dastard, at the battell of Poictiers,

1766When (but in all) I was sixe thousand strong,

1767And that the French were almost ten to one,

1768Before we met, or that a stroke was giuen,

1769Like to a trustie Squire, did run away.

1770In which assault, we lost twelue hundred men.

1771My selfe, and diuers Gentlemen beside,

1772Were there surpriz'd, and taken prisoners.

1773Then iudge (great Lords) if I haue done amisse:

1774Or whether that such Cowards ought to weare

1775This Ornament of Knighthood, yea or no?

1776 Glo. To say the truth, this fact was infamous,

1777And ill beseeming any common man;

1778Much more a Knight, a Captaine, and a Leader.

1779 Tal. When first this Order was ordain'd my Lords,

1780Knights of the Garter were of Noble birth;

1781Valiant, and Vertuous, full of haughtie Courage,

1782Such as were growne to credit by the warres:

1783Not fearing Death, nor shrinking for Distresse,

1784But alwayes resolute, in most extreames.

1785He then, that is not furnish'd in this sort,

1786Doth but vsurpe the Sacred name of Knight,

1787Prophaning this most Honourable Order,

1788And should (if I were worthy to be Iudge)

1789Be quite degraded, like a Hedge-borne Swaine,

1790That doth presume to boast of Gentle blood.

1791 K. Staine to thy Countrymen, thou hear'st thy doom:

1792Be packing therefore, thou that was't a knight:

1793Henceforth we banish thee on paine of death.

1794And now Lord Protector, view the Letter

1795Sent from our Vnckle Duke of Burgundy.

1796 Glo. What meanes his Grace, that he hath chaung'd

1797 his Stile?

1798No more but plaine and bluntly? (To the King.)

1799Hath he forgot he is his Soueraigne?

1800Or doth this churlish Superscription

1801Pretend some alteration in good will?

1802What's heere?

1808O monstrous Treachery: Can this be so?

1809That in alliance, amity, and oathes,

1810There should be found such false dissembling guile?

1811 King. What? doth my Vnckle Burgundy reuolt?

1812 Glo. He doth my Lord, and is become your foe.

1813 King. Is that the worst this Letter doth containe?

1814 Glo. It is the worst, and all (my Lord) he writes.

1815 King. Why then Lord Talbot there shal talk with him,

1816And giue him chasticement for this abuse.

1817How say you (my Lord) are you not content?

1818 Tal. Content, my Liege? Yes: But y^t I am preuented,

1819I should haue begg'd I might haue bene employd.

1820 King. Then gather strength, and march vnto him

1821 straight:

1822Let him perceiue how ill we brooke his Treason,

1823And what offence it is to flout his Friends.

1824 Tal. I go my Lord, in heart desiring still

1825You may behold confusion of your foes.

1827 Ver. Grant me the Combate, gracious Soueraigne.

1828 Bas. And me (my Lord) grant me the Combate too.

1829 Yorke. This is my Seruant, heare him Noble Prince.

1830 Som. And this is mine (sweet Henry) fauour him.

1831 King. Be patient Lords, and giue them leaue to speak.

1832Say Gentlemen, what makes you thus exclaime,

1833And wherefore craue you Combate? Or with whom?

1834 Ver. With him (my Lord) for he hath done me wrong.

1835 Bas. And I with him, for he hath done me wrong.

1836 King. What is that wrong, wherof you both complain

1837First let me know, and then Ile answer you.

1838 Bas. Crossing the Sea, from England into France,

1839This Fellow heere with enuious carping tongue,

1840Vpbraided me about the Rose I weare,

1841Saying, the sanguine colour of the Leaues

1842Did represent my Masters blushing cheekes:

1843When stubbornly he did repugne the truth,

1844About a certaine question in the Law,

1845Argu'd betwixt the Duke of Yorke, and him:

1846With other vile and ignominious tearmes.

1847In confutation of which rude reproach,

1848And in defence of my Lords worthinesse,

1849I craue the benefit of Law of Armes.

1850 Uer. And that is my petition (Noble Lord:)

1851For though he seeme with forged queint conceite

1852To set a glosse vpon his bold intent,

1853Yet know (my Lord) I was prouok'd by him,

1854And he first tooke exceptions at this badge,

1855Pronouncing that the palenesse of this Flower,

1856Bewray'd the faintnesse of my Masters heart.

1857 Yorke. Will not this malice Somerset be left?

1858 Som. Your priuate grudge my Lord of York, wil out,

1859Though ne're so cunningly you smother it.

1860 King. Good Lord, what madnesse rules in braine-

1861 sicke men,

1862When for so slight and friuolous a cause,

1863Such factious aemulations shall arise?

1864Good Cosins both of Yorke and Somerset,

1865Quiet your selues (I pray) and be at peace.

1866 Yorke. Let this dissention first be tried by fight,

1867And then your Highnesse shall command a Peace.

1868 Som. The quarrell toucheth none but vs alone,

1869Betwixt our selues let vs decide it then.

1870 Yorke. There is my pledge, accept it Somerset.

1871 Ver. Nay, let it rest where it began at first.

1872 Bass. Confirme it so, mine honourable Lord.

1873 Glo. Confirme it so? Confounded be your strife,

1874And perish ye with your audacious prate,

1875Presumptuous vassals, are you not asham'd

1876With this immodest clamorous outrage,

1877To trouble and disturbe the King, and Vs?

1878And you my Lords, me thinkes you do not well

1879To beare with their peruerse Obiections:

1880Much lesse to take occasion from their mouthes,

1881To raise a mutiny betwixt your selues.

1882Let me perswade you take a better course.

1883 Exet. It greeues his Highnesse,

1884Good my Lords, be Friends.

1885 King. Come hither you that would be Combatants:

1886Henceforth I charge you, as you loue our fauour,

1887Quite to forget this Quarrell, and the cause.

1888And you my Lords: Remember where we are,

1889In France, amongst a fickle wauering Nation:

1890If they perceyue dissention in our lookes,

1891And that within our selues we disagree;

1892How will their grudging stomackes be prouok'd

1893To wilfull Disobedience, and Rebell?

1894Beside, What infamy will there arise,

1895When Forraigne Princes shall be certified,

1896That for a toy, a thing of no regard,

1897King Henries Peeres, and cheefe Nobility,

1898Destroy'd themselues, and lost the Realme of France?

1899Oh thinke vpon the Conquest of my Father,

1900My tender yeares, and let vs not forgoe

1901That for a trifle, that was bought with blood.

1902Let me be Vmper in this doubtfull strife:

1903I see no reason if I weare this Rose,

1904That any one should therefore be suspitious

1905I more incline to Somerset, than Yorke:

1906Both are my kinsmen, and I loue them both.

1907As well they may vpbray'd me with my Crowne,

1908Because (forsooth) the King of Scots is Crown'd.

1909But your discretions better can perswade,

1910Then I am able to instruct or teach:

1911And therefore, as we hither came in peace,

1912So let vs still continue peace, and loue.

1913Cosin of Yorke, we institute your Grace

1914To be our Regent in these parts of France:

1915And good my Lord of Somerset, vnite

1916Your Troopes of horsemen, with his Bands of foote,

1917And like true Subiects, sonnes of your Progenitors,

1918Go cheerefully together, and digest

1919Your angry Choller on your Enemies.

1920Our Selfe, my Lord Protector, and the rest,

1921After some respit, will returne to Calice;

1922From thence to England, where I hope ere long

1923To be presented by your Victories,

1924With Charles, Alanson, and that Traiterous rout.

1926 War. My Lord of Yorke, I promise you the King

1927Prettily (me thought) did play the Orator.)

1928 Yorke. And so he did, but yet I like it not,

1929In that he weares the badge of Somerset.

1930 War. Tush, that was but his fancie, blame him not,

1931I dare presume (sweet Prince) he thought no harme.

1932 York. And if I wish he did. But let it rest,

1933Other affayres must now be managed. Exeunt.

1935 Exet. Well didst thou Richard to suppresse thy voice:

1936For had the passions of thy heart burst out,

1937I feare we should haue seene decipher'd there

1938More rancorous spight, more furious raging broyles,

1939Then yet can be imagin'd or suppos'd:

1940But howsoere, no simple man that sees

1941This iarring discord of Nobilitie,

1942This shouldering of each other in the Court,

1943This factious bandying of their Fauourites,

1944But that it doth presage some ill euent.

1945'Tis much, when Scepters are in Childrens hands:

1946But more, when Enuy breeds vnkinde deuision,

1947There comes the ruine, there begins confusion. Exit.