SCENE II. Southampton. A council-chamber. Enter EXETER, Bedford, and Westmoreland. Bed. 'Fore God, his grace is bold, to trust these traitors. Exe. They shall be apprehended by and by. West. How smooth and even they do bear themselves! As if allegiance in their bosoms sat, Crowned with faith and constant loyalty. Bed. The king hath note of all that they intend, By interception which they dream not of. Exe. Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow, Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracious favours, That he should, for a foreign purse, so sell Trumpets sound. Enter KING HENRY, SCROOP, K. Hen, Now sits the wind fair, and we will aboard. My Lord of Cambridge, and my kind Lord of Masham, And you, my gentle knight, give me your thoughts: Think you not that the powers we bear with us Will cut their passage through the force of France, Doing the execution and the act For which we have in head assembled them? Scroop. No doubt, my liege, if each man do his best. 8. the man that was his bedfellow, i.e. Lord Scroop, of whom Holinshed reports this as ΤΟ a mark of his intimacy with the king. 18. in head, in force. K. Hen. I doubt not that; since we are well persuaded We carry not a heart with us from hence That grows not in a fair consent with ours, Nor leave not one behind that doth not wish Cam. Never was monarch better fear'd and Than is your majesty: there's not, I think, a subject That sits in heart-grief and uneasiness Under the sweet shade of your government. Grey. True: those that were your father's enemies Have steep'd their galls in honey, and do serve you With hearts create of duty and of zeal. K. Hen. We therefore have great cause of thankfulness; And shall forget the office of our hand, Sooner than quittance of desert and merit Scroop. So service shall with steeled sinews toil, K. Hen. We judge no less. Uncle of Exeter, Scroop. That's mercy, but too much security: 22. consent, accord. 33. office, use. 20 30 40 43. his more advice, his thinking better of it. Cam. So may your highness, and yet punish too. Grey. Sir, You show great mercy, if you give him life, After the taste of much correction. K. Hen. Alas, your too much love and care of me Are heavy orisons 'gainst this poor wretch ! If little faults, proceeding on distemper, Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd and di gested, Appear before us? We'll yet enlarge that man, Though Cambridge, Scroop and Grey, in their dear care And tender preservation of our person, Would have him punish'd. And now to our French causes : Who are the late commissioners ? Cam. I one, my lord: Your highness bade me ask for it to-day. Scroop. So did you me, my liege. Grey. And I, my royal sovereign. K. Hen. Then, Richard Earl of Cambridge, there is yours; There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight, Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours: Read them; and know, I know your worthiness. What see you in those papers that you lose 54. proceeding on distemper, proceeding from a mental disturbance due to a physical cause. 61. late, lately appointed. 63. it, viz. his commission. 50 60 70 So much complexion? Look ye, how they change! That hath so cowarded and chased your blood Cam. I do confess my fault; And do submit me to your highness' mercy. K. Hen. The mercy that was quick in us but By your own counsel is suppress'd and kill'd: You know how apt our love was to accord Than Cambridge is, hath likewise sworn. But, O, What shall I say to thee, Lord Scroop? thou cruel, Ingrateful, savage and inhuman creature! Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels, Could out of thee extract one spark of evil 90. practices, plots. 91. Hampton, Southampton. 80 90 100 That might annoy my finger? 'tis so strange, With patches, colours, and with forms being fetch'd From glistering semblances of piety; But he that temper'd thee bade thee stand up, treason, Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. If that same demon that hath gull'd thee thus The sweetness of affiance! Show men dutiful? 103. stands off, stands out. 108. That admiration, etc., that wonder did not cry out at them; they excited no surprise. 114. suggest, tempt. |