101101Complotted and contriued in this land:
102102Fetch from fal
se Mowbray their
fir
st head and
spring,
103103Further I
say and further will maintaine
104104Vpon his bad life to make all this good,
105105That he did plotte the Duke of Gloce
sters death,
106106Sugge
st his
soone beleeuing aduer
saries,
107107And eon
sequently like a taitour coward,
108108Slucte out his innocent
soule through
streames of bloud,
109109Which bloud, like
sacri
ficing Abels cries,
110110Euen from the toungle
sse Cauernes of the earth,
111111To me for iu
stice and rough cha
sti
sement
: 112112And, by the glorious worth of my de
scent,
113113This arme
shall do it, or this life be
spent.
114114King. How high a pitch his re
solution
soares,
115115Thomas of Norfolke what
sai
st thou to this ?
116116Mowb. Oh let my
soueraigne turne awaie his face,
117117And bid his eares a little while be deafe.
118118Till I haue tolde this
slaunder of his bloud,
119119How God and good men hate
so foule a lier
. 120120King. Mowbray impartiall are our eies and eares,
121121Were he my brother, nay, my kingdomes heire,
122122As he is but my fathers brothers
sonne,
123123Now by
scepters awe I make a vowe,
124124Such neighbour neerenes to our
sacred bloud
125125Should nothing priuiledge him nor partialize
126126The vn
stooping
firmene
sse of my vpright
soule,
127127He is our
subie
ct Mowbray
so art thou,
128128Free
speech and fearele
sse I to thee allowe.
129129Mowb. Then Bullingbrooke as lowe as to thy heart
130130Through the fal
se pa
ssage of thy throate thou lie
st.
131131Three partes of that receipte I had for Callice,
132132Di
sbur
st I duely to his highne
sse
souldiers,
133133The other part re
serude I by con
sent,
134134For that my
soueraigne liege was in my debt
. 135135Vpon remainder of a deare account:
136136Since la
st I went to France to fetch his Queene:
137137Now
swallow downe that lie. For Gloce
sters death,
I slew