6464And let him be no kin
sman to my Liege,
6565I do de
fie him, and I
spit at him,
6666Call him a
slaunderous coward, and a villaine,
6767Which to maintaine, I would allow him ods,
6868And meete him were I tied to runne afoote,
6969Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes,
7070Or any other ground inhabitable,
7171Where euer Engli
shman dur
st set his foote,
7272Meane time, let this defend my loyaltie,
7373By all my hopes mo
st fal
sly doth he lie.
7474Bull. Pale trembling coward there I throw my gage,
7575Di
sclaiming here the kinred of the King,
7676And lay a
side my high bloudes royaltie,
7777Which Feare, not Reuerence makes thee to except.
7878If guilty dread haue left thee
so much
strength,
7979As to take vp mine honours pawne, then
stowpe,
8080By that, and all the rites of Knighthoode el
se,
8181Will I make good again
st thee arme to arme,
8282What I haue
spoke, or thou can
st wor
se deui
se.
8383Mow. I take it vp, and by that
sword I
sweare,
8484Which gently laid my Knighthood on my
shoulder,
8585Ile an
swer thee in any faire degree,
8686Or chiualrous de
signe of knightly triall:
8787And when I mount, aliue may I not light,
8888If I be traitor or vniu
stly
fight.
8989King. What doth our cou
sin lay to Mowbraies charge?
9090It mu
st be great that can inherit vs,
9191So much as of a thought of ill in him.
9292Bul. Looke what I
speake, my life
shall proue it true,
9393That Mowbray hath receiude eight thou
sand nobles
9494In name of Lendings for your Highnes
souldiours,
9595The which he hath detaind for lewd imployments,
9696Like a fal
se traitour, and iniurious villaine:
9797Be
sides I
say, and will in battle proue,
9898Or here, or el
sewhere to the furthe
st Verge
: 9999That euer was
surueyed by Engli
sh eye,
100100That all the trea
sons for the
se eighteene yeares,
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