628329Glost. Before God my Lord, his Grace is too bold to trust

330 these traytors.

629331Exe. They shalbe apprehended by and by.

635332Glost. I but the man that was his bedfellow

636333Whom he hath cloyed and graced with princely fauours

637334That he should for a forraine purse, to sell

638335His Soueraignes life to death and trechery.

638.1336Exe. O the Lord of Massham.

641338King. Now sirs the windes faire, and we wil aboord;

642339My Lord of Cambridge, and my Lord of Massham,

643340And you my gentle Knight, giue me your thoughts,

644341Do you not thinke the power we beare with vs,

645342Will make vs conquerors in the field of France?

648343Massha. No doubt my Liege, if each man do his best.

654344Cam. Neuer was Monarch better feared and loued then

655345 is your maiestie.

658346Gray. Euen those that were your fathers enemies

659347Haue steeped their galles in honey for your sake.

661348King. We therefore haue great cause of thankfulnesse,

662349And shall forget the office of our hands:

663350Sooner then reward and merit,

664351According to their cause and worthinesse.

665352Massha. So seruice shall with steeled sinewes shine,

666353And labour shall refresh it selfe with hope

667354To do your Grace incessant seruice.

668355King. Vncle of Exeter, enlarge the man

669356Committed yesterday, that rayled against our person,

671357We consider it was the heate of wine that set him on,

672358And on his more aduice we pardon him.

673359Massha. That is mercie, but too much securitie:

674360Let him bee punisht Soueraigne, least the example of (him

675362Breed more of such a kinde.

676363King. O let vs yet be mercifull.

677364Cam. So may your highnesse, and punish too.

678365Gray. You shew great mercie if you giue him lilfe,

679366After the taste of his correction.

680367King. Alas your too much care and loue of me

681368Are heauy orisons gainst the poore wretch,

682369If litle faults proceeding on distemper should not bee (winked at,

683371How should we stretch our eye, when capitall crimes,

684372Chewed, swallowed and disgested, appeare before vs:

685373Well yet enlarge the man, tho Cambridge and the rest

686374In their deare loues, and tender preseruation of our state,

688375Would haue him punisht.

376Now to our French causes.

689377Who are the late Commissioners?

690378Cam. Me one my Lord, your highnesse bad me aske for

691379 it to day.

B 3 Masha. So

692380Mash. So did you me my Soueraigne.

693381Gray. And me my Lord.

694382King. Then Richard Earle of Cambridge there is yours.

695383There is yours my Lord of Masham.

384And sir Thomas Gray knight of Northumberland, this same is (yours:

697385Read them, and know we know your worthinesse.

698386Vnckle Exeter I will aboord to night.

699387Why how now Gentlemen, why change you colour?

700388What see you in those papers

389That hath so chased your blood out of apparance?

705390Cam. I do confesse my fault, and do submit me

706391To your highnesse mercie.

707392Mash. To which we all appeale.

708393King. The mercy which was quit in vs but late,

709394By your owne reasons is forstald and done:

710395You must not dare for shame to aske for mercy,

711396For your owne conscience turne vpon your bosomes,

712397As dogs vpon their maisters worrying them.

713398See you my Princes, and my noble Peeres,

714399These English monsters:

400My Lord of Cambridge here,

715401You know how apt we were to grace him,

717402In all things belonging to his honour:

403And this vilde man hath for a fewe light crownes,

718404Lightly conspired and sworne vnto the practises of France:

720405To kill vs here in Hampton. To the which,

721406This knight no lesse in bountie bound to vs

722407Then Cambridge is, haah likewise sworne.

408But oh what shall I say to thee false man,

723409Thou cruell ingratefull and inhumane creature,

725410Thou that didst beare the key of all my counsell,

726411That knewst the very secrets of my heart,

727412That almost mightest a coyned me into gold,

728413Wouldest thou a practisde on me for thy vse:

729414Can it be possible that out of thee

730415Should proceed one sparke that might annoy my finger?

731416Tis so strange, that tho the truth doth showe as grose

733417As black from white, mine eye wil scarcely see it.

771418Their faults are open, arrest them to the answer of the lawe,

773419And God acquit them of their practises.

774420Exe. I arrest thee of high treason,

421By the name of Richard, Earle of Cambridge.

776422I arest thee of high treason,

423By the name of Henry, Lord of Masham.

778424I arest thee of high treason,

425By the name of Thomas Gray, knight of Northumberland.

780426Mash. Our purposes God iustly hath discouered,

781427And I repent my fault more then my death,

782428Which I beseech your maiestie forgiue,

783429Altho my body pay the price of it.

795430King. God quit you in his mercy. Heare your sentence.

796431You haue conspired against our royall person,

797432Ioyned with an enemy proclaimed and fixed.

433And frō his coffers receiued the golden earnest of our death

803434Touching our person we seeke no redresse.

804435But we our kingdomes safetie must so tender

805436Whose ruine you haue sought,

437That to our lawes we do deliuer you.

806438Get ye therefore hence: poore miserable creatures to your (death,

808439The taste whereof, God in his mercy giue you

809440Patience to endure, and true repentance of all your deeds (amisse:

810441Beare them hence.

811443Now Lords to France. The enterprise whereof,

812444Shall be to you as vs, successiuely.

814445Since God cut off this dangerous treason lurking in our way

821446Cheerly to sea, the signes of war aduance:

822447No King of England, if not King of France.