1868Hast. Wee haue sent forth alreadie.

1869Bish. 'Tis well done.

1870My Friends, and Brethren (in these great Affaires)

1871I must acquaint you, that I haue receiu'd

1872New-dated Letters from Northumberland:

1873Their cold intent, tenure, and substance thus.

1874Here doth hee wish his Person, with such Powers

1875As might hold sortance with his Qualitie,

1876The which hee could not leuie: whereupon

1877Hee is retyr'd, to ripe his growing Fortunes,

1878To Scotland; and concludes in heartie prayers,

1879That your Attempts may ouer-liue the hazard,

1880And fearefull meeting of their Opposite.

1881Mow. Thus do the hopes we haue in him, touch ground,

1882And dash themselues to pieces.

1884Hast. Now? what newes?

1885Mess. West of this Forrest, scarcely off a mile,

1886In goodly forme, comes on the Enemie:

1887And by the ground they hide, I iudge their number

1888Vpon, or neere, the rate of thirtie thousand.

1889Mow. The iust proportion that we gaue them out.

1890Let vs sway-on, and face them in the field.

1892Bish. What well-appointed Leader fronts vs here?

1893Mow. I thinke it is my Lord of Westmerland.

1894West. Health, and faire greeting from our Generall,

1895The Prince, Lord Iohn, and Duke of Lancaster.

1896Bish. Say on (my Lord of Westmerland) in peace:

1897What doth concerne your comming?

1898West. Then (my Lord)

1899Vnto your Grace doe I in chiefe addresse

1900The substance of my Speech. If that Rebellion

1901Came like it selfe, in base and abiect Routs,

1902Led on by bloodie Youth, guarded with Rage,

1903And countenanc'd by Boyes, and Beggerie:

1904I say, if damn'd Commotion so appeare,

1905In his true, natiue, and most proper shape,

1906You (Reuerend Father, and these Noble Lords)

1907Had not beene here, to dresse the ougly forme

1908Of base, and bloodie Insurrection,

1909With your faire Honors. You, Lord Arch-bishop,

1910Whose Sea is by a Ciuill Peace maintain'd,

1911Whose Beard, the Siluer Hand of Peace hath touch'd,

1912Whose Learning, and good Letters, Peace hath tutor'd,

1913Whose white Inuestments figure Innocence,

1914The Doue, and very blessed Spirit of Peace.

1915Wherefore doe you so ill translate your selfe,

1916Out of the Speech of Peace, that beares such grace,

1917Into the harsh and boystrous Tongue of Warre?

1918Turning your Bookes to Graues, your Inke to Blood,

1919Your Pennes to Launces, and your Tongue diuine

1920To a lowd Trumpet, and a Point of Warre.

1921Bish. Wherefore doe I this? so the Question stands.

1922Briefely to this end: Wee are all diseas'd,

1923And with our surfetting, and wanton howres,

1924Haue brought our selues into a burning Feuer,

1925And wee must bleede for it: of which Disease,

1926Our late King Richard (being infected) dy'd.

1927But (my most Noble Lord of Westmerland)

1928I take not on me here as a Physician,

1929Nor doe I, as an Enemie to Peace,

1930Troope in the Throngs of Militarie men:

1931But rather shew a while like fearefull Warre,

1932To dyet ranke Mindes, sicke of happinesse,

1933And purge th'obstructions, which begin to stop

1934Our very Veines of Life: heare me more plainely.

1935I haue in equall ballance iustly weigh'd,

1936What wrongs our Arms may do, what wrongs we suffer,

1937And finde our Griefes heauier then our Offences.

1938Wee see which way the streame of Time doth runne,

1939And are enforc'd from our most quiet there,

1940By the rough Torrent of Occasion,

1941And haue the summarie of all our Griefes

1942(When time shall serue) to shew in Articles;

1943Which long ere this, wee offer'd to the King,

1944And might, by no Suit, gayne our Audience:

1945When wee are wrong'd, and would vnfold our Griefes,

1946Wee are deny'd accesse vnto his Person,

1947Euen by those men, that most haue done vs wrong.

1948The dangers of the dayes but newly gone,

1949Whose memorie is written on the Earth

1950With yet appearing blood; and the examples

1951Of euery Minutes instance (present now)

1952Hath put vs in these ill-beseeming Armes:

1953Not to breake Peace, or any Branch of it,

1954But to establish here a Peace indeede,

1955Concurring both in Name and Qualitie.

1956West. When euer yet was your Appeale deny'd?

1957Wherein haue you beene galled by the King?

1958What Peere hath beene suborn'd, to grate on you,

1959That you should seale this lawlesse bloody Booke

1960Of forg'd Rebellion, with a Seale diuine?

1961Bish. My Brother generall, the Common-wealth,

1962I make my Quarrell, in particular.

1963West. There is no neede of any such redresse:

1964Or if there were, it not belongs to you.

1965Mow. Why not to him in part, and to vs all,

1966That feele the bruizes of the dayes before,

1967And suffer the Condition of these Times

1968To lay a heauie and vnequall Hand vpon our Honors?

1969West. O my good Lord Mowbray,

1970Construe the Times to their Necessities,

1971And you shall say (indeede) it is the Time,

1972And not the King, that doth you iniuries.

1973Yet for your part, it not appeares to me,

1974Either from the King, or in the present Time,

1975That you should haue an ynch of any ground

1976To build a Griefe on: were you not restor'd

1977To all the Duke of Norfolkes Seignories,

1978Your Noble, and right well-remembred Fathers?

1979Mow. What thing, in Honor, had my Father lost,

1980That need to be reuiu'd, and breath'd in me?

1981The King that lou'd him, as the State stood then,

1982Was forc'd, perforce compell'd to banish him:

1983And then, that Henry Bullingbrooke and hee

1984Being mounted, and both rowsed in their Seates,

1985Their neighing Coursers daring of the Spurre,

1986Their armed Staues in charge, their Beauers downe,

1987Their eyes of fire, sparkling through sights of Steele,

1988And the lowd Trumpet blowing them together:

1989Then, then, when there was nothing could haue stay'd

1990My Father from the Breast of Bullingbrooke;

1991O, when the King did throw his Warder downe,

1992(His owne Life hung vpon the Staffe hee threw)

1993Then threw hee downe himselfe, and all their Liues,

1994That by Indictment, and by dint of Sword,

1995Haue since mis-carryed vnder Bullingbrooke.

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