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York. The Archbishop's palace.
[Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, the Lords HASTINGS, MOWBRAY, and BARDOLPH]
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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Thus have you | heard our | causes,| and know |
our means:
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And my / most nob|le friends,| I pray | you all
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Speak plain/ly your | opin|ions of | our hopes,
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And first |(lord marsh/al) what | say you | to
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MOWBRAY
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I well | allow | the occa|sion of | our arms,
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But glad|ly would | be bet|ter sat|isfied,
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How (in | our means)| we should | advance |
ourselves
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To look | with fore|head bold and big | enough
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Upon | the power | and puis|sance^of | the king.
HASTINGS
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Our pres|ent must|ers grow | upon | the file
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To five | and twen|ty thous|and men | of choice:
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And our | supplies,| live large/ly in | the hope
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Of great | Northum|berland,| whose bos|om burns
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With an / incensed | fire | of in|juries.
LORD BARDOLPH
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The ques|tion then |(Lord^Hast|ings) stand|eth
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Whether our | present | five and | twenty |
thousand
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May hold | up head,| without | Northum|berland:
HASTINGS
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With him,| we may.
LORD BARDOLPH
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Aye* mar|ry, there's | the point:
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But if | without | him we be | thought too
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My judg|ment is,| we should not | step too far
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Till we | had his | assist|ance by | the hand.
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For in | a theme | so bloo|dy-faced,| as this,
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Conjec|ture, ex|pecta|tion, and | surmise
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Of aids | incert|ain, should | not be ad|mitted.
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'Tis ve|ry true | Lord Bardolph,| for indeed
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It was / young Hot|spur's^case,| at Shrews|bury.
LORD BARDOLPH
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It was |(my lord)| who lined | himself | with
hope,
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Eating | the air,| on prom|ise of | supply,
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Flattering | himself | in pro|ject^of | a power,
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Much smal/ler, than | the smal|lest of | his
thoughts,
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And so | with great | ima|gina|tion
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(Proper | to mad|men) led | his powers | to
death,
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And (wink|ing) leaped | into | destruc|tion.
HASTINGS
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But (by | your leave)| it nev|er yet | did hurt,
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To lay down like|lihoods,| and forms | of hope.
LORD BARDOLPH
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Yes, if this | present | quali|ty of | war,
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In||deed the | instant | action:| a cause | on
foot,
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Lives so | in hope:| as in | an ear|ly spring,
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We see | the appear|ing buds,| which to prove
fruit,
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Hope gives^|not so | much war|rant, as | despair
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That frosts | will bite | them. When | we mean |
to build,
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We first | survey | the plot,| then draw | the
model,
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And when | we see | the fig|ure of | the house,
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Then must | we rate | the cost | of the
e|rection,
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Which if | we find | outweighs | abil|ity,
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What do | we then,| but draw | anew | the model
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In few|er of|fices?| Or at least,| desist
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To build | at all?| Much^more,| in this / great
work,
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(Which is |(almost)| to pluck | a king|dom down
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And set | anoth|er up)| should we | survey
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The plot | of sit|ua|tion, and | the model;
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Consent | upon | a sure | founda|tion,
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Question | survey|ors, know | our own | estate,
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How ab|le such | a work | to und|ergo,
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To weigh | against | his op|posite?| Or else,
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We for|tify | in pap/er, and in | figures,
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Using | the names | of men,| instead | of men:
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Like^one,| that draws | the mod|el of | a house
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Beyond | his power | to build it;| who (half
through)
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Gives^ore,| and leaves | his part-|creat|ed cost
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A nak|ed sub|ject to | the weep|ing clouds,
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And waste,| for churl|ish wint|er's tyr|anny.
HASTINGS
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Grant that | our hopes |(yet like|ly of / fair
birth)
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Should be / still-born,| and that | we now |
possessed
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The ut|most^man | of ex|pecta|tion,
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I think | we are | a bo|dy strong | enough
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(Even as | we are)| to e|qual with | the king.
LORD BARDOLPH
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What is the | king but | five and | twenty |
thousand?
HASTINGS
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To us | no more:| nay* not | so much | Lord
Bar||dolph.
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For | his di|visions |(as the times | do brawl)
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Are in three | heads: one power | against | the
French,
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And one | against |*Glendower:| perforce | a
third
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Must^take | up us:| so is the | unfirm king
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In three | divid|ed: and | his cof|fers sound
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With hol|low pov|erty,| and emp|tiness.
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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That he should | draw his | several | strengths
to|gether
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And come | against | us in | full puissance
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Need^not | be dread|ed.
HASTINGS
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If | he should / do so,
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He leaves | his back | unarmed,| the French,| and
Welsh
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Baying | him at | the heels:| never | fear that.
LORD BARDOLPH
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Who is it | like should | lead his | forces |
hither?
HASTINGS
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The Duke | of Lan|caster,| and West|moreland:
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Against | the Welsh | himself,| and Har|ry
Mon||mouth.
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But | who is sub|stitut|ed against | the French,
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I have / no cert|ain not|ice.
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK
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Let | us on:
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And pub|lish the | occa|sion of | our arms.
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The com|monwealth | is sick | of their / own
choice,
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Their ov|er-gree|dy love | hath surf|eited:
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A hab|ita|tion gid|dy, and / unsure
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Hath he | that build|eth on | the vul|gar heart.
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O thou | fond ma/ny, with | what loud | applause
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Didst^thou / beat heaven | with bles|sing
Bol|ingbroke,
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Before | he was,| what thou | wouldst have | him
be?
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And be|ing now | trimmed in | thine^own |
desires,
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Thou (beast|ly feed|er) art | so full | of him,
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That thou | provokst | thyself | to cast | him
up.
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So* so |(thou com|mon dog)| didst^thou | disgorge
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Thy glutton | bosom | of the | royal | Richard,
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And now | thou wouldst | eat thy | dead vomit up,
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And howlst | to find it.| What trust | is in |
these times?
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They, that | when Rich|ard lived,| would have | him die,
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Are now | become | enam|ored on | his grave.
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Thou that | threwst dust upon | his good|ly
head
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When through | proud Lon/don he | came* sigh|ing
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After | the ad/mired heels | of Bol|ingbroke,
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Cryst^now,| O earth,| yield us | that king |
again,
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And take | thou this |(O thoughts | of men |
accursed),
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Past, and to | come, seems best;|
things^pres|ent, worst.
MOWBRAY
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Shall we | go draw | our num|bers, and / set on?
HASTINGS
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We are / time's sub|jects*, and / time bids,| be
gone.
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