496454wit will make vse of any thing; I will turne diseases to commo-

497455ditie.

501458Bishop Thus haue you heard our cause, and knowne our(meanes,

502459And my most noble friends, I pray you al

503460Speake plainely your opinions of our hopes,

504461And first Lord Marshall, what say you to it?

505462Marsh. I well allow the occasion of our armes,

506463But gladly would be better satisfied,

507464How in our meanes we should aduance ourselues,

508465To looke with forehead, bold, and big enough,

509466Vpon the power and puissance of the King.

510467Hast. Our present musters grow vpon the file,

511468To fiue and twenty thousand men of choise,

512469And our supplies liue largely in the hope

513470Of great Northumberland, whose bosome burnes

514471With an incensed fire of iniuries.

515472Bard. The question then Lord Hastings standeth thus,

516473Whether our present fiue and twentie thousand,

517474May hold vp head without Northumberland.

518475Hast. With him we may.

519476Bard. Yea mary, theres the point,

520477But if without him we be thought too feeble,

521478My iudgement is we should not step too far.

526479Bish. Tis very true lord Bardolfe, for indeede

527480It was yong Hot-spurs cause at Shrewsbury.

528481Bard. It was my Lord, who lined himselfe with hope,

529482Eating the ayre, and promise of supplie,

530483Flattring himselfe in proiect of a power,

531484Much smaller then the smallest of his thoughts,

532485And so with great imagination,

533486Proper to mad-men, led his powers to death,

534487And winking, leapt into destruction.

535488Hast. But by your leaue it neuer yet did hurt,