627328Enter Exeter and Gloucester. Before God, my lord, his grace is too bold to trust
330these traitors.
They shall be apprehended by and by.
Ay, but the man that was his bedfellow,
3.4636333Whom he hath cloyed and graced with princely favors,
3.5637334That he should, for a foreign purse -- to sell
3.6638335His sovereign's life to death and treachery!
Oh, the Lord of Masham.
3.7.1640337Enter the King and three lords[, Masham, Cambridge, and Grey, and attendants]. Now sirs, the wind's fair, and we will aboard.
3.9642339My lord of Cambridge, and my lord of Masham,
3.10643340And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts:
3.11644341Do you not think the power we bear with us,
3.12645342Will make us conquerors in the field of France?
No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best.
Never was monarch better feared and loved
Even those that were your father's enemies
3.17659347Have steeped their galls in honey for your sake.
We therefore have great cause of thankfulness,
3.19662349And shall forget the office of our hands
3.21664351According to their cause and worthiness.
So service shall with steelèd sinews shine,
3.23666353And labor shall refresh itself with hope
Uncle of Exeter,
669enlarge the man
3.26356Committed yesterday,
670that railed against our person.
3.27357We consider
671it was the heat of wine that set him on,
That is mercy, but too much security.
3.30674360Let him be punished, sovereign, lest the example of him
Oh, let us yet be merciful.
So may your highness, and punish too.
You show great mercy if you give him life,
Alas, your too much care and love of me
3.37681368Are heavy orisons 'gainst the poor wretch.
3.38682369If little faults proceeding on distemper
3.39683Should not be winked at,
371how should we stretch our eye
3.40684When capital crimes,
372chewed, swallowed, and digested,
3.41685Appear before us?
373We'll yet enlarge the man,
3.42686Though Cambridge and the rest,
374in their dear loves
3.43687And tender preservation of our state
3.44688375Would have him punished.
376Now to our French causes. --
Who are the late commissioners? Me one, my lord.
So did you me, my sovereign.
And me, my lord.
[Giving them papers] Then Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours.
3.50695383There is yours, my lord of Masham
384and Sir Thomas Grey,
3.5151Knight of Northumberland, this same is yours.
3.52697385Read them, and know we know your worthiness. --
3.54387Why, how now, gentlemen?
700Why change you color?
3.55388What see you in those papers
I do confess my fault,
706and do submit me
To which we all appeal.
The mercy which was quit in us but late
3.61709394By your own reasons is forestalled and done.
3.62710395You must not dare for shame to ask for mercy,
3.63711396For your own conscience turn upon your bosoms
3.64712397As dogs upon their masters, worrying them. --
3.65713398See you, my princes, and my noble peers,
3.69403And this vile man
718hath for a few light crowns,
3.70404Lightly conspired
719and sworn unto the practices of France
3.71720405To kill us here in Hampton. To the which
3.72721406This knight, no less in bounty bound to us
3.73722407Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. --
3.74[To Masham] 408But oh,
723what shall I say to thee, false man?
3.75409Thou cruel,
724ingrateful, and inhumane creature,
3.76725410Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsel,
3.77726411That knew'st the very secrets of my heart,
3.78727412That almost mightst'a coined me into gold,
3.79728413Wouldst thou a'practiced on me for thy use?
3.81730415Should proceed one spark
731that might annoy my finger?
3.82416'Tis so strange,
732that though the truth doth show as gross
3.83733417As black from white, mine eye will scarcely see it. --
3.84771418Their faults are open;
772arrest them to the answer of the law,
I arrest thee of high treason,
421by the name of
775Richard, Earl of Cambridge.
776422I arrest thee of high treason,
423by the name of
777Henry, Lord of Masham.
778424I arrest thee of high treason,
425by the name of Thomas
779Grey, knight of Northumberland.
Our purposes God justly hath discovered,
3.88781427And I repent my fault more than my death,
God quit you in his mercy. Hear your sentence:
3.92796431You have conspired against our royal person,
3.93797432Joined with an enemy proclaimed and fixed,
3.94433And from his coffers
798received the golden earnest of our death.
3.96804435But we our kingdom's safety must so tender,
3.98806We do deliver you.
438Get ye therefore hence,
3.99807Poor miserable creatures, to your death,
3.101440Patience to endure, and true repentance
3.102810Of all your deeds amiss. --
441Bear them hence.
3.102.1810.1442Exit [the] three lords[, Cambridge, Grey, and Masham, guarded]. 3.103811443Now, lords, to France, the enterprise whereof
3.105814445Since God cut off
815this dangerous treason lurking in our way.