Hot.
We'll fight with him to-night.

Wor.
It may not be.

Doug.
You give him then advantage.

Ver.
Not a whit.

Hot.
Why say you so? looks he not for supply?

Ver.
So do we.

Hot.
His ^note is ^note certain, ours is doubtful.

Wor.
Good cousin, be advised; stir not to-night.

Ver.
Do not, my lord.

Doug.
You do not counsel well:
You speak ^note it out of fear and ^note cold heart.

Ver.
Do me no ^note slander, Douglas: by my life,
And I dare well maintain it with my life,
If well-respected honour bid ^note me on,
I hold as little counsel with weak fear
As you, my lord ^note, or any Scot that this day ^note lives:
Let it ^note be seen to-morrow in the battle

Which of us fears ^note.

Doug. ^note
Yea, or to-night.

Ver.
Content.

Hot.
To-night, say I.

Ver.
Come, come, it may not be. I wonder much,
Being men of such great leading as you are ^{note note},
That you foresee not what impediments
Drag back our expedition: certain horse ^note
Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up:
Your uncle Worcester's horse ^note came but to-day;
And now their pride and mettle is asleep,
Their courage with hard labour tame and dull,
That not a horse is half the half ^note of himself ^note.

Hot.
So are the horses of the enemy
In general, journey-bated and brought low:
The better part of ours are full of rest.

Wor.
The number of the king exceedeth ours ^note:
For God's sake, cousin, stay till all come in. [The trumpet sounds a parley. Enter Sir Walter Blunt. ^note

Blunt.
I come with gracious offers ^note from the king,
If you vouchsafe me hearing and respect.

Hot.
Welcome, Sir Walter Blunt; and would to God
You were of our determination!
Some of us love you well; and even those some
Envy your great deservings and good name,
Because you are not of our quality,
But stand against us like an enemy.

Blunt.
And God ^note defend but still I should stand so,
So long as out of limit and true rule

You stand against anointed majesty.
But to my charge. The king hath sent to know ^note
The nature of your griefs, and whereupon
You conjure from the breast ^note of civil peace
Such bold hostility, teaching his ^note duteous land
Audacious cruelty. If that the king
Have ^note any way your good deserts forgot,
Which he confesseth to be manifold,
He bids you name your griefs ^note; and with all speed
You shall have your desires ^note with interest
And pardon absolute for yourself and these
Herein misled by your suggestion.

Hot.
The king is kind; and well we know the king ^note
Knows at what time to promise, when to pay.
My father and my ^note uncle and myself
Did give him that same royalty he wears;
And when he was not six and twenty strong,
Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low,
A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home,
My father gave him welcome to the shore;
And when he heard him swear and vow to God
He came but to be ^note Duke of Lancaster,
To sue ^note his livery and beg his peace,
With tears of innocency ^note and terms of zeal ^note,
My father, in kind heart and pity moved ^note,
Swore him ^note assistance and perform'd it too.
Now when the lords and barons of the realm
Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,
The more ^note and less came in with cap and knee;

Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,
Attended ^note him on bridges, stood in lanes,
Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their oaths,
Gave him their heirs, as pages ^note follow'd ^note him
Even at the heels in golden multitudes.
He presently, as greatness knows itself,
Steps me a little higher than his vow
Made to my father, while his blood was poor,
Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;
And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform
Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
That lie ^note too heavy on the commonwealth,
Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
Over his country's ^note wrongs; and by this face,
This seeming brow of justice, did he win
The hearts of all that he did angle for;
Proceeded further; cut me off the heads
Of all the favourites that the absent king
In deputation left behind him here,
When he was personal in the Irish war.

Blunt.
Tut ^note, I came not to hear this.

Hot.
Then to the point.
In short time after, he deposed the king;
Soon after that, deprived him of his life;
And in the neck of that, task'd ^note the whole state;
To make that worse, suffer'd his kinsman March,
Who is, if every owner were well ^note placed,
Indeed his king, to be engaged ^note in Wales,
There without ransom to lie forfeited;
Disgraced me in my happy victories,
Sought to entrap me by intelligence;

Rated mine ^note uncle from the council-board;
In rage dismiss'd my father from the court;
Broke oath on oath, committed ^note wrong on wrong,
And in conclusion drove us to seek out
This head of safety; and withal to pry
Into his title ^note, the which we find ^note
Too indirect for long continuance.

Blunt.
Shall I return this answer to the king?

Hot.
Not so, Sir Walter: we'll withdraw awhile ^note.
Go to the king; and let there be impawn'd
Some surety for a safe ^note return again,
And in the morning early shall my uncle
Bring him our purposes ^note: and so farewell.

Blunt.
I would you would accept of grace and love.

Hot.
And ^note may be so we shall.

Blunt.
Pray God ^note you do. [Exeunt. ^note

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