Boling.
Bring forth these men.
Bushy and Green, I will not vex your souls—

Since presently your souls must part your bodies—
With too ^note much urging your pernicious lives,
For 'twere no charity; yet, to wash your blood
From off my hands, here in the view of men
I will unfold some causes of your deaths ^note.
You have misled a prince, a royal king,
A happy gentleman in blood and lineaments,
By you unhappied and disfigured clean:
You have in manner with your sinful hours
Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him,
Broke the possession ^note of a royal bed
And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks
With tears drawn from her eyes by ^note your foul wrongs.
Myself, a prince by fortune of my birth,
Near to the king in blood, and near in love
Till you ^note did make him misinterpret me,
Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries,
And sigh'd ^note my English breath in foreign clouds ^note,
Eating the bitter bread of banishment;
Whilst ^note you have fed upon my signories,
Dispark'd my parks and fell'd my forest woods,
From my ^note own windows torn my household coat,
Razed out my imprese ^note, leaving me no sign,
Save men's opinions and my living blood,
To show the world I am a gentleman.
This and much more, much more than twice all this,
Condemns you to the death. See them deliver'd over ^note
To execution and the hand of death.

Bushy.
More welcome is the stroke of death to me
Than Bolingbroke to England. Lords, farewell ^note.

Green.
My comfort is that heaven will take our souls

And plague injustice with the pains of hell.

Boling.
My Lord Northumberland, see ^note them dispatch'd. [Exeunt ^note Northumberland and others, with the prisoners.
Uncle, you say the queen is at your house;
For God's ^note sake, fairly let her be entreated:
Tell her I send to her my kind commends;
Take special care my greetings be deliver'd ^note.

York.
A gentleman of mine I have dispatch'd
With letters of your love to her at large.

Boling.
Thanks, gentle uncle. Come, lords ^note, away,
To fight with Glendower ^note and his complices ^note:
Awhile to work, and after holiday. [Exeunt.

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