2509King. Feare not, my friends, you shall receyue no hurt,

2510If you'l subscribe vnto your lawfull King,

2511And quite reuoke your fealty from Cambria,

2512And from aspiring Cornwall too, whose wiues

2513Haue practisde treason 'gainst their fathers life.

2514Wee come in iustice of your wronged King,

2515And do intend no harme at all to you,

2516So you submit vnto your lawfull King.

2517Leir. Kind Countrymen, it grieues me, that perforce,

2518I am constraind to vse extremities.

2519Noble. Long haue you here bin lookt for, good my Lord,

2520And wish'd for by a generall consent:

2521And had we known your Highnesse had arriued,

2522We had not made resistance to your Grace:

2523And now, my gracious Lord, you need not doubt,

2524But all the Country will yeeld presently,

2525Which since your absence haue bin greatly tax'd,

2526For to maintayne their ouerswelling pride.

2527Weele presently send word to all our friends;

2528When they haue notice, they will come apace.

2529Leir. Thanks, louing subiects; and thanks, worthy son,

2530Thanks, my kind daughter, thanks to you, my Lord,

2531Who willingly aduentured haue your blood,

2532 (Without desert) to do me so much good.

2533Mum. O, say not so:

2534I haue bin much beholding to your Grace:

2535I must confesse, I haue bin in some skirmishes,

2536But I was neuer in the like to this:

2537For where I was wont to meet with armed men,

2538I was now incountred with naked women.

2539Cord.We that are feeble, and want vse of Armes,

2540Will pray to God, to sheeld you from all harmes.

2541Leir. The while your hands do manage ceaselesse toyle,

2542Our hearts shall pray, the foes may haue the foyle.

2543Per.Weele fast and pray, whilst you for vs do fight,

2544That victory may prosecute the right.

2545King.Me thinks, your words do amplify (my friends)

2546And adde fresh vigor to my willing limmes: Drum.

2547But harke, I heare the aduerse Drum approch.

2548God and our right, Saint Denis, and Saint George.

2550Corn.Presumptuous King of Gawles, how darest thou

2551Presume to enter on our Brittish shore?

2552And more then that, to take our townes perforce,

2553And draw our subiects hearts from their true King?

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2554Be sute to buy it at as deare a price,

2555As ere you bought presumption in your liues.

2556King. Ore-daring Cornwall, know, we came in right,

2557And iust reuengement of the wronged King,

2558Whose daughters there, fell vipers as they are,

2559Haue sought to murder and depriue of life:

2560But God protected him from all their spight,

2561And we are come in iustice of his right.

2562Cam. Nor he nor thou haue any interest here,

2563But what you win and purchase with the sword.

2564Thy slaunders to our noble vertuous Queenes,

2565Wee'l in the battell thrust them down thy throte,

2566Except for feare of our reuenging hands,

2567Thou flye to sea, as not secure on lands.

2568Mum.Welshman, ile so ferrit you ere night for that word,

2569That you shall haue no mind to crake so wel this tweluemonth.

2570 Gon. They lye, that say, we sought our fathers death.

2571Rag. Tis meerely forged for a colours sake,

2572To set a glosse on your inuasion.

2573Me thinks, an old man ready for to dye,

2574Should be asham'd to broache so foule a lye.

2575Cord.Fy, shamelesse sister, so deuoyd of grace,

2576To call our father lyer to his face.

2577Gon. Peace (Puritan) dissembling hypocrite,

2578Which art so good, that thou wilt proue stark naught:

2579Anon, when as I haue you in my fingers,

2580Ile make you wish your selfe in Purgatory.

2581Per. Nay, peace thou monster, shame vnto thy sexe:

2582Thou fiend in likenesse of a humane creature.

2583Rag. I neuer heard a fouler spoken man.

2584Leir. Out on thee, viper, scum, filthy parricide,

2585More odious to my sight then is a Toade.

2586Knowest thou these letters? She snatches them & teares them.

2587Rag. Think you to outface me with your paltry scrowles?

2588You come to driue my husband from his right,

2589Vnder the colour of a forged letter.

2590Leir. Who euer heard the like impiety?

2591Per. You are our debtour of more patience:

2592We were more patient when we stayd for you,

2593Within the thicket two long houres and more.

2594Rag.What houres? what thicket?

2595Per. There, where you sent your seruant with your letters,

2596Seald with your hand, to send vs both to heauen,

2597Where, as I thinke, you neuer meane to come.

2598Raga. Alas, you are growne a child agayne with age,

2599Or else your sences dote for want of sleepe.

2600Per. Indeed you made vs rise betimes, you know,

2601Yet had a care we should sleepe where you bade vs stay,

2602But neuer wake more till the latter day.

2603Gon. Peace, peace, old fellow, thou art sleepy still.

2604Mum. Fayth, and if you reason till to morrow,

2605You get no other answere at their hands.

2606Tis pitty two such good faces

2607Should haue so little grace betweene them.

2608Well, let vs see if their husbands with their hands,

2609Can do as much, as they do with their toungs.

2610Cam. I, with their swords they'l make your toung vnsay

2611What they haue sayd, or else they'l cut them out.

2612King. Too't, gallants, too't, let's not stand brawling thus.