16441649My water's on the earth, and not on him,

16451650March on, and marke King Richard how he lookes.

16491652Bull. See see King Richard doth himselfe appeare,

16501653As doth the blushing discontented Sunne,

16511654From out the fierie portall of the East,

16521655When he perceiues the enuious cloudes are bent

16531656To dimme his glorie, and to staine the tracke

16541657Of his bright passage to the Occident.

16551658Yorke Yet lookes he like a King, beholde his eye,

16561659As bright as is the Eagles, lightens forth

16571660Controlling maiestie; alacke alacke for woe,

16581661That any harme should staine so faire a shew.

16591662King We are amazde, and thus long haue we stoode,

16601663To watch the feareful bending of thy knee,

16611664Because : me'thought our selfe thy lawful King:

16621665And if wee be, howe dare thy ioynts forget

16631666To pay their awefull duety to our presence?

16641667If we be not, shew vs the hand of God

16651668That hath dismist vs from our Stewardship;

16661669For well we know no hand of bloud and bone

16671670Can gripe the sacred handle of our Scepter,

16681671Vnlesse he do prophane, steale, or vsurpe,

16691672And though you thinke that all as you haue done

16701673Haue torne their soules, by turning them from vs,

16711674And we are barren and bereft of friends:

16721675Yet know, my maister God omnipotent,

16731676Is mustering in his cloudes on our behalfe,

16741677Armies of pestilence, and they shall strike

16751678Your children yet vnborne, and vnbegot,

16761679That lift your vassaile hands against my head,

16771680And threat the glorie of my precious crowne.

16781681Tell Bullingbrooke, for yon me thinkes he standes,

16791682That euery stride he makes vpon my land,

16801683Is dangerous treason: he is come to open

16811684The purple testament of bloeding warre: