20501796Mou There is a thing within my bosome tells me

20511797That no conditions of our peace can stand.

20521798Hastings Feare you not, that if we can make our peace,

20531799Vpon such large termes, and so absolute,

20541800As our conditions shall consist vpon,

20551801Our peace shall stand as firme as rockie mountaines.

20561802Moub. Yea but our valuation shal be such,

20571803That euery slight, and false deriued cause,

20581804Yea euery idle, nice, and wanton reason,

20591805Shall to the King taste of this action,

20601806That were our royal faiths martires in loue,

20611807We shall be winow'd with so rough a wind,

20621808That euen our corne shal seeme as light as chaffe,

20631809And good from bad find no partition.

20641810Bish. No, no, my lord, note this, the King is weary

20651811Of daintie and such picking greeuances,

20661812For he hath found, to end one doubt by death,

20671813Reuiues two greater in the heires of life:

20681814And therefore will he wipe his tables cleane,

20691815And keepe no tel-tale to his memorie,

20701816That may repeate, and history his losse,

20711817To new remembrance: for full wel he knowes,

20721818He cannot so precisely weed this land,

20731819As his misdoubts present occasion,

20741820His foes are so enrooted with his friends,

20751821That plucking to vnfix an enemy,

20761822He doth vnfasten so, and shake a friend,

20771823So that this land, like an offensiue wife,

20781824That hath enragde him on to offer strokes,

20791825As he is striking, holdes his infant vp,

20801826And hangs resolu'd correction in the arme,

20811827That was vpreard to execution.

20821828Hast. Besides, the King hath wasted al his rods,

20831829On late offendors, that he now doth lacke

20841830The very instruments of chasticement,

20851831So that his power, like to a phanglesse lion,