480one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the De-

481grees preuent my curses. Boy?

482Page. Sir.

483Fal. What money is in my purse?

484Page. Seuen groats, and two pence.

485Fal. I can get no remedy against this Consumption of

486the purse. Borrowing onely lingers, and lingers it out,

487but the disease is incureable. Go beare this letter to my

488Lord of Lancaster, this to the Prince, this to the Earle of

489Westmerland, and this to old Mistris Vrsula, whome I

490haue weekly sworne to marry, since I perceiu'd the first

491white haire on my chin. About it: you know where to

492finde me. A pox of this Gowt, or a Gowt of this Poxe:

493for the one or th'other playes the rogue with my great

494toe: It is no matter, if I do halt, I haue the warres for my

495colour, and my Pension shall seeme the more reasonable.

496A good wit will make vse of any thing: I will turne dis-

497eases to commodity. Exeunt

501Ar. Thus haue you heard our causes, & kno our Means:

502And my most noble Friends, I pray you all

503Speake plainly your opinions of our hopes,

504And first (Lord Marshall) what say you to it?

505Mow. I well allow the occasion of our Armes,

506But gladly would be better satisfied,

507How (in our Meanes) we should aduance our selues

508To looke with forhead bold and big enough

509Vpon the Power and puisance of the King.

510Hast. Our present Musters grow vpon the File

511To fiue and twenty thousand men of choice:

512And our Supplies, liue largely in the hope

513Of great Northumberland, whose bosome burnes

514With an incensed Fire of Iniuries.

515L. Bar. The question then (Lord Hastings) standeth thus

516Whether our present fiue and twenty thousand

517May hold-vp-head, without Northumberland:

518Hast. With him, we may.

519L. Bar. I marry, there's the point:

520But if without him we be thought to feeble,

521My iudgement is, we should not step too farre

522Till we had his Assistance by the hand.

523For in a Theame so bloody fac'd, as this,

524Coniecture, Expectation, and Surmise

525Of Aydes incertaine, should not be admitted.

526Arch. 'Tis very true Lord Bardolfe, for indeed

527It was yong Hotspurres case, at Shrewsbury.

528L. Bar. It was (my Lord) who lin'd himself with hope,

529Eating the ayre, on promise of Supply,

530Flatt'ring himselfe with Proiect of a power,

531Much smaller, then the smallest of his Thoughts,

532And so with great imagination

533(Proper to mad men) led his Powers to death,

534And (winking) leap'd into destruction.

535Hast. But (by your leaue) it neuer yet did hurt,

536To lay downe likely-hoods, and formes of hope.

537L. Bar. Yes, if this present quality of warre,

538Indeed the instant action: a cause on foot,

539Liues so in hope: As in an early Spring,

540We see th'appearing buds, which to proue fruite,

541Hope giues not so much warrant, as Dispaire

542That Frosts will bite them. When we meane to build,

543We first suruey the Plot, then draw the Modell,

544And when we see the figure of the house,

545Then must we rate the cost of the Erection,

546Which if we finde out-weighes Ability,

547What do we then, but draw a-new the Modell

548In fewer offices? Or at least, desist

549To builde at all? Much more, in this great worke,

550(Which is (almost) to plucke a Kingdome downe,

551And set another vp) should we suruey

552The plot of Situation, and the Modell;

553Consent vpon a sure Foundation:

554Question Surueyors, know our owne estate,

555How able such a Worke to vndergo,

556To weigh against his Opposite? Or else,

557We fortifie in Paper, and in Figures,

558Vsing the Names of men, instead of men:

559Like one, that drawes the Modell of a house

560Beyond his power to builde it; who (halfe through)

561Giues o're, and leaues his part-created Cost

562A naked subiect to the Weeping Clouds,

563And waste, for churlish Winters tyranny.

564Hast. Grant that our hopes (yet likely of faire byrth)

565Should be still-borne: and that we now possest

566The vtmost man of expectation:

567I thinke we are a Body strong enough

568(Euen as we are) to equall with the King.

569L. Bar. What is the King but fiue & twenty thousand?

570Hast. To vs no more: nay not so much Lord Bardolf.

571For his diuisions (as the Times do braul)

572Are in three Heads: one Power against the French,

573And one against Glendower: Perforce a third

574Must take vp vs: So is the vnfirme King

575In three diuided: and his Coffers sound

576With hollow Pouerty, and Emptinesse.

577Ar. That he should draw his seuerall strengths togither

578And come against vs in full puissance

579Need not be dreaded.

580Hast. If he should do so,

581He leaues his backe vnarm'd, the French, and Welch

582Baying him at the heeles: neuer feare that.

583L. Bar. Who is it like should lead his Forces hither?

584Hast. The Duke of Lancaster, and Westmerland:

585Against the Welsh himselfe, and Harrie Monmouth.

586But who is substituted 'gainst the French,

587I haue no certaine notice.

588Arch. Let vs on:

589And publish the occasion of our Armes.

590The Common-wealth is sicke of their owne Choice,

591Their ouer-greedy loue hath surfetted:

592An habitation giddy, and vnsure

593Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart.

594O thou fond Many, with what loud applause

595Did'st thou beate heauen with blessing Bullingbrooke,

596Before he was, what thou would'st haue him be?

597And being now trimm'd in thine owne desires,

598Thou (beastly Feeder) art so full of him,

599That thou prouok'st thy selfe to cast him vp.

600So, so, (thou common Dogge) did'st thou disgorge

601Thy glutton-bosome of the Royall Richard,

602And now thou would'st eate thy dead vomit vp,

603And howl'st to finde it. What trust is in these Times?

604They, that when Richard liu'd, would haue him dye,

605Are now become enamour'd on his graue.

606Thou that threw'st dust vpon his goodly head

607When through proud London he came sighing on,

608After th'admired heeles of Bullingbrooke,

609Cri'st now, O Earth, yeeld vs that King agine,