2727Mowb. Each day still better others happines,

2828Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap,

2929Adde an immortall title to your Crowne.

3030King. We thanke you both, yet one but flatters vs,

3131As well appeareth by the cause you come,

3232Namely to appeale each other of high treason:

3333Coosin of Herford, what dost thou obiect

3434Against the Duke of Norffolke Thomas Mowbray?

3535Bull. First, heauen be the record to my speech,

3636In the deuotion of a subiects loue,

3737Tendring the pretious safetie of my Prince,

3838And free from other misbegotten hate,

3939Come I appellant to this princely presence.

4040Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee,

4141And marke my greeting well: for what I speake

4242My body shall make good vpon this earth,

4343Or my diuine soule answer it in heauen:

4444Thou art a traitour and a miscreant,

4545Too good to be so, and too bad to liue,

4646Since the more faire and cristall is the skie,

4747The vglier seeme the cloudes that in it flie:

4848Once more, the more to aggrauate the note,

4949With a foule traitors name stuffe I thy throte,

5050And wish (so please my Soueraigne) ere I moue,

5151What my tong speaks, my right drawen sword may proue.

5252Mow. Let not my cold wordes here accuse my zeale,

5353Tis not the triall of a womans warre,

5454The bitter clamour of two eger tongues

5555Can arbitrate this cause betwixt vs twaine,

5656The bloud is hote that must be coold for this,

5757Yet can I not of such tame patience boast,

5858As to be huisht, and naught at all to say.

5959First the faire reuerence of your Highnesse curbs me,

6060From giuing reines and spurres to my free speech,

6161Which else would post vntill it had returnd,

6262These termes of treason doubled downe his throat:

6363Setting aside his high blouds royaltie,