Tork. Then, Buckingham, I do difmifs my Powers.
Soldiers, I thank you all; difperfe your felves;
Meet me to morrow in St. George's Field,
You fhall have Pay, and every thing you wish.
And let my Sovereign, virtuous Henry.
Command my eldent Son, nay all my Sons,
As pledges of my Fealty and Love,
I'll fend them all as willing as 1 live;
Lands, Goods, Horfe, Armour, any thing I have
Is his to use, so Somerset may die.
Buck. York I commend this kind Submiffion,
We twain will go into his Highness Tent.
Enter King Henry and Attendants.
K. Henry. Buckingham doth York intend no harm to us,
That thus he marcheth with thee Arm in Arm?
York. In all fubmiffion and humility,
York doth present himself unto your Highness.
K. Henry. Then what intend thefe Forces thou doft bring?
York. To have the Traitor Somerfet from hence,
And fight againft that monstrous Rebel Cade,
Whom fince I heard to be discomfited.
Enter Iden with Cade's Head.
Iden. If one fo rude, and of fo mean Condition
May pass into the Presence of a King;
Lo, I prefent your Grace a Traitor's Head,
The Head of Cade whom I in Combat flew.
K Henry.The Head of Cade? great God! how juft art thou?
O let me view his Vilage being dead,
That living wrought me fuch exceeding trouble.
Tell me, my Friend, art thou the Man that flew him?
Iden. I was, an't like your Majefty.
K. Henry How art thou call'd? And what is thy Degree?
Iden. Alexander Iden, that's my Name,
A poor Efquire of Kent, that loves the King.
Buck. So pleafe it you, my Lord, 'twere not amifs
He were created Knight for his good Service.
K.Henry Iden kneel down; rife up a Knight:
We give thee for Reward a thousand Marks,
And will, that thou henceforth attend on us.
Iden. May Iden live to merit such a Bounty, And never live but true unto his Liege.
Enter Queen Margaret and Somerset.
K. Henry.See Buckingham, Somerfet comes with the Queen;. Go, bid her hide him quickly from the Duke.
Mar. For thousand Yorks he fhall not hide his Head, But boldly ftand and front him to his Face.
York. How now? Is Somerfet at liberty?
Then, York, unloose thy long imprisoned Thoughts,
And let thy Tongue be equal with thy Heart.
Shall I endure the fight of Somerset ?
Falfe King, why haft thou broken Faith with me,
Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse?
King did I call thee? No, thou art no King:
Not fit to govern and rule Multitudes,
Which durft not, no nor canít not rule a Traitor.
That Head of thine doth not become a Crown:
Thy Hand is made to grafp a Palmer's Staff,
And not to grace an awful Princely Scepter.
That Gold muft round engirt these Brows of mine,
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles Spear,
Is able with the change to kill and cure.
Here is a Hand to hold a Scepter up,
And with the fame to act controlling Laws:
Give place; by Heav'n thou shalt Rule no more
O'er him, whom Heav'n created for thy Ruler.
Som. Q monftrous Traitor! I arreft thee York,
Of Capital Treafon 'gainst the King and Crown;
Obey, audacious Traitor, kneel for Grace.
York. Would't have me kneel? First, let me ask of thee, If they can brook, I bow a Knee to Man!
Sirrah, call in my Sons to be my Bail:
I know, ere they will let me go to Ward,
They'll pawn their Swords for my Enfranchisement.
2. Mar. Call hither Clifford, bid him come amain,
To lay, if that the Baftard Boys of York
Shall be the Surety for their Traitor Father.
York. O Blood befpotted Neapolitan,
Out-caft of Naples, England's bloody Scourge;
The Sons of York, thy Betters in their Birth,
Shall be their Father's Bail, and bane to those
That for my Surety will refufe the Boys.
Enter Edward and Richard.
See where they come, I'll warrant they'll make it good.
Enter Clifford.
Q.Mar. And here comes Clifford, to deny their Bail.
Clif Health and all Happipefs to my Lord the King.
York. I thank thee, Clifford, Say, what News with thee?
Nay, do not fright me with an angry Look:
We are thy Sovereign, Clifford, kneel again;
For thy miftaking fo, we pardon thee.
Clif. This is my King, York, I do not mistake,
But thou mistak'ft me much to think I do;
To Bedlam with him, is the Man grown mad?
K. Henry. Ay, Clifford, a Bedlam and ambitious humour Makes him oppose himself against his King.
Clif. He is a Traitor, let him to the Tower,
And crop away that factious Pate of his.
Q.Mar. He is arrefted, but will not obey:
His Sons, he fays, fhall give their Words for him.
York. Will you not, Sons?
E. Plan. Ay, noble Father, if our Words will serve.
R. Plan. And if Words will not, then our Weapons fhall.
Clif. Why, what a brood of Traitors have we here?
York. Look in a Glafs, and call thy Image fo.
I am the King, and thou a falfe-heart Traitor;
Call hither to the Stake my two brave Bears,
That with the very shaking of their Chains
They may aftonish thefe fell-lurking Curs:
Bid Salisbury and Warwick come to me.
Enter the Earls of Warwick and Salisbury. Clif. Are these thy Bears? We'll bait thy Bears to death, And manacle the Bearard in their Chains,
If thou dar'ft bring them to the baiting place.
R. Plan. Oft have I feen a hot o'er-weening Cur
Run back and bite, because he was with-held,
Who being fuffer'd with the Bear's fell Paw,
Hath clapt his Tail betwixt his Legs and cry'd:
And fuch a piece of Service will you do,
If you oppofe your felves to match Lord Warwick.
Clif. Hence, heap of Wrath, foul indigefted Lump, As crooked in thy Manners, as thy Shape.
York. Nay, we fhall heat you thoroughly anon.
Clif. Take heed leaft by your heat you burn your felves. K. Henry. Why, Warwick, hath thy Knee forgot to bow? Old Salisbury, fhame to thy Silver Hair,
Thou mad Mifs-leader of thy Brain-fick Son,
What, wilt thou on thy Death-bed play the Ruffian?
And feek for Sorrow with thy Spectacles?
Oh where is Faith? Oh where is Loyalty?
If it be banish'd from the frofty Head,
Where fhall it find a harbour in the Earth?
Wilt thou go dig a Grave to find out War,
And fhame thine honourable Age with Blood?
Why art thou old, and want'ft Experience?
Or wherefore doft abuse it, if thou haft it?
For fhame, in duty bend thy Knee to me,
That bows unto the Grave with milky Age.
Sal. My Lord, I have confidered with my
felf,
The Title of this most renowned Duke,
And in my Confcience do repute his Grace,
The rightful Heir to England's Royal Seat.
K. Henry. Haft thou not fworn Allegiance unto me?
Sal. I have.
K. Henry. Canft thou difpenfe with Heaven for fuch an
Sal. It is great Sin to fwear unto a Sin;
But greater Sin to keep a finful Oath?
Who can be bound by any folemn Vow
To do a murd'rous Deed, to rob a Man,
To force a spotlefs Virgin's Chastity,
To reave the Orphan of his Patrimony,
To wring the Widow from her custom'd Right,
And have no other reafon for his wrong,
But that he was bound by a folemn Oath?
Q. Mar. A fubtle Traitor needs no Sophister.
K. Kenry. Call Buckingham, and bid him arm himself. York. Call Buckingham, and all the Friends thou haft,
I am refolv❜d for Death or Dignity.
Old Clif. The firft, Iwarrant thee; if Dreams prove true?
War. You were best go to Bed, and dream again,
VOL. IV.
To keep thee from the Tempest of the Field.
Old Clif. I am refolv'd to bear a greater Storm,
Than any thou canst Conjure up to day:
And that I'll write upon thy Burgonet,
Might I but know thee by thy Houfe's Badge.
War. Now by my Father's Badge, old Nevil's Creft,
The rampant Bear chain'd to the ragged Staff,
This day I'll wear aloft my Burgonet,
As on a Mountain top, the Cedar fhews,
That keeps his Leaves in fpight of any Storm,
Even to affright thee with the view thereof.
Old Clif. And from thy Burgonet I'll rend thy Bear,
And tread it under foot with all contempt,
Defpight the Bearard, that protects the Bear.
Y. Clif. And fo to Arms, victorious noble Father, To quel the Rebels and their Complices.
R. Plan. Fie, Charity for fhame, fpeak not in fpight, For you fhall fup with Jefu Chrift to night.
r. Clif. Foul Stigmatick, that's more than thou canst tell. R. Plan. If not in Heav'n you'll furely fup in Hell..
War. Clifford of Cumberland, 'tis Warwick calls; And if thou doft not hide thee from the Bear. Now when the angry Trumpet founds Alarum, And dy'ing Mens cries do fill the empty Air, Clifford, I fay, come forth and fight with me, Proud Northern Lord, Clifford of Cumberland, Warwick is hoarse with calling thee to Arms. Enter York.
War. How now, my noble Lord? what all a-foot?
York. The deadly handed Clifford flew my Steed:
But match to match I have encountred him,
And made a prey for Carrion, Kites and Crows,
Even of the bonny Beaft he lov'd fo well.
War. Of one or both of us the time is come.
York. Hold Warwick: feek the out fome other Chase,
For I my felf muft hunt this Deer to death.
War. Then nobly York, 'tis for a Crown thou fight'it:
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