37723377Nor. A good direction warlike soueraigne, he sheweth him a paper.

37733378This found I on my tent this morning.

37763381King A thing deuised by the enemie.

37773382Go gentlemen euery man vnto his charge,

37783383Let not our babling dreames affright our soules:

37793384Conscience is but a word that cowards vse,

37803385Deuisd at first to keepe the strong in awe,

37813386Our strong armes be our conscience swords, our law.

37823387March on, ioine brauelie, let vs to it pell mell,

37833388If not to heauen then hand in hand to hell.

37843390What shal I saie more then I haue inferd?

37853391Remember whom you are to cope withall,

37863392A sort of vagabonds, rascols and runawaies,

37873393A scum of Brittains and base lacky pesants,

37883394Whom their orecloied country vomits forth,

37893395To desperate aduentures and assurd destruction,

37903396You sleeping safe they bring to you vnrest,

37913397You hauing lands and blest with beauteous wifes,

37923398They would restraine the one, distaine the other,

37933399And who doth lead them but a paltrey fellow,?

37943400Long kept in Brittaine at our mothers cost,

37953401A milkesopt, one that neuer in his life

37963402Felt so much colde as ouer shooes in snow:

37973403Lets whip these stragglers ore the seas againe,

37983404Lash hence these ouerweening rags of France,

37993405These famisht beggers wearie of their liues,

38003406Who but for dreaming on this fond exploit,

38013407For want of means poore rats had hangd themselues,

38023408If we be conquered, let men conquer vs,

38033409And not these bastard Brittains whom our fathers

38043410Haue in their own land beaten bobd and thumpt,

38053411And in record left them the heires of shame.

38063412Shall these enioy our lands, lie with our wiues?

38073413Rauish our daughters, harke I heare their drum,

38093414Fight gentlemen of England, fight bold yeomen,