18811688Mowb. Thus do the hopes we haue in him, touch ground,

18821689And dash themselues to peeces. Enter messenger

18841690Hastings Now, what newes?

18851691Messenger West of this forrest, scarcely off a mile,

18861692In goodly forme comes on the enemy,

18871693And by the ground they hide, I iudge their number

18881694Vpon, or neere the rate of thirty thousand.

18891695Mowbray The iust proportion that we gaue them out,

18901696Let vs sway on, and face them in the field.

18921697Bishop What wel appointed Leader fronts vs heere?

18931699Mowbray I thinke it is my lord of Westmerland.

18941700West. Health and faire greeting from our Generall,

18951701The prince lord Iohn and duke of Lancaster.

18961702Bishop Say on my lord of Westmerland in peace,

18971703What doth concerne your comming?

18981704We. Then my L. vnto your Grace do I in chiefe addresse

19001705The substance of my speech: if that rebellion

19011706Came like it selfe, in base and abiect rowtes,

19021707Led on by bloody youth, guarded with rage,

19031708And countenaunst by boyes and beggary.

19041709I say, if damnd commotion so appeare,

19051710In his true, natiue, and most proper shape,

19061711You, reuerend father, and these noble Lordes,

19071712Had not beene heere to dresse the owgly forme

19081713Of base and bloody Insurrection

19091714With your faire Honours. You (lord Archbishop)

19101715Whose Sea is by a ciuile peace maintainde,

19111716Whose beard the siluer hand of Peace hath toucht,

19121717Whose learning and good letters Peace hath tutord,

19131718Whose white inuestments figure innocence,

19141719The Doue, and very blessed spirite of peace.

19151720Wherefore do you so ill translate your selfe

19161721Out of the speech of peace that beares such grace,

19171722Into the harsh and boystrous tongue of warre?

19181723Turning your bookes to graues, your incke to bloud,