101101Complotted and contriued in this land:

102102Fetch from false Mowbray their first 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 Glocesters death,

106106Suggest his soone beleeuing aduersaries,

107107And eonsequently like a taitour coward,

108108Slucte out his innocent soule through streames of bloud,

109109Which bloud, like sacrificing Abels cries,

110110Euen from the tounglesse Cauernes of the earth,

111111To me for iustice and rough chastisement:

112112And, by the glorious worth of my descent,

113113This arme shall do it, or this life be spent.

114114King. How high a pitch his resolution soares,

115115Thomas of Norfolke what saist 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 vnstooping firmenesse of my vpright soule,

127127He is our subiect Mowbray so art thou,

128128Free speech and fearelesse I to thee allowe.

129129Mowb. Then Bullingbrooke as lowe as to thy heart

130130Through the false passage of thy throate thou liest.

131131Three partes of that receipte I had for Callice,

132132Disburst I duely to his highnesse souldiers,

133133The other part reserude I by consent,

134134For that my soueraigne liege was in my debt.

135135Vpon remainder of a deare account:

136136Since last I went to France to fetch his Queene:

137137Now swallow downe that lie. For Glocesters death,