come sit Sit and be quiet here are Kingly buggs words Enter at one dore foure Scotch Antickes accordingly habited Enter at another foure wilde Irish in Trowses long hayred and accordingly habited Musicke The Maskers daunce K: Ia: To all a generall thankes Warb: In the next Roome Take your owne shapes againe you shall receiue Particular acknowledgement K: Ia: Enough Of merriments Crawford how far 's our Armie Vpon the March Craw: At Hedenhall great King Twelue thousand well prepard K: Ia: Crawford to night Post thither Wee in person with the Prince By foure a clocke to morrow after dinner Will be w' ee speede away Craw. I flie my Lord K: I Our businesse growes to head now where 's your Secretarie that he attends'ee not to serue Warb: With March-mont your Herald K: Ia: Good the Proclamations readie By that it will appeare how the English stand Affected to your title Huntley comfort Your Daughter in her Husbands absence fight With prayers at home for vs who for your honors Must toyle in fight abroad Hunt: Prayers are the weapons Which men so neere their graues as I doe vse I 've little else to doe K: Ia: To rest young beauties Wee must be early stirring quickly part A Kingdomes rescue craues both speede and art Cosens good night Flourish Warb: Rest to our Cosen King Kath: Your blessing Sir Hunt: Faire blessings on your Highnesse sure you neede 'em Exeunt omnes Manent Warb Katherine Warb: Iane set the lights downe and from vs returne To those in the next roome this little purse Say we 'ele deserue their loues Iane It shall be done Sir Warb: Now dearest ere sweet sleepe shall seale those eyes Loues pretious tapers giue me leaue to vse A parting Ceremonie for to morrowe It would be sacriledge to intrude vpon The temple of thy peace swift as the morning Must I breake from the downe of thy embraces To put on steele and trace the pathes which leade Through various hazards to a carefull throne Kath: My Lord I would faine goe w' ee there 's small fortune In staying here behinde Warb: The churlish browe Of warre faire dearest is a sight of horror For Ladies entertainment if thou hear'st A truth of my sad ending by the hand Of some vnnaturall subject thou withall Shalt heare how I dyed worthie of my right By falling like a KING and in the cloze Which my last breath shall sound thy name thou fayrest Shall sing a requiem to my soule vnwilling Onely of greater glorie 'cause devided From such a heaven on earth as life with thee But these are chimes for funeralls my businesse Attends on fortune of a sprightlier triumph for loue and Majestie are reconcil'd And vow to crowne thee Empresse of the West Kath: You haue a noble language Sir your right In mee is without question and however Events of time may shorten my deserts In others pittie yet it shall not stagger Or constancie or dutie in a wife You must be King of me and my poore heart Is all I can call mine Warb: But we will liue Liue beauteous vertue by the liuely test Of our owne bloud to let the Counterfeite Be knowne the worlds contempt Kath: Pray doe not vse That word it carries fate in 't the first suite I ever made I trust your loue will graunt Warb: Without deniall dearest Kath: That hereafter If you returne with safetie no adventure May sever vs in tasting any fortune I nere can stay behinde againe Warb: Y' are Ladie Of your desires and shall commaund your will Yet 't is too hard a promise Kath: What our Destinies Haue rul'd out in their Bookes wee must not search But kneele too Warb: Then to feare when hope is fruitlesse Were to be desperately miserable Which povertie our greatnesse dares not dreame of And much more scornes to stoope to some fewe minutes Remaine yet let 's be thriftie in our hopes Exeunt Enter King Henrie Hialas and Vrswicke K: H Your name is Pedro Hialas a Spaniard Hialas Sir a Castillian borne K: H King Ferdinand With wise Queene Isabell his royall consort Write 'ee a man of worthie trust and candor Princes are deare to heaven who meete with Subjects Sincere in their imployments such I finde Your commendation Sir let me deliver How joyfull I repute the amitie With your most fortunate Maister who almost Comes neere a miracle in his successe Against the Moores who had devour'd his Countrie Entire now to his Scepter Wee for our part Will imitate his providence in hope Of partage in the vse o' nt Wee repute The privacie of his advisement to vs By you entended an Ambassadour To Scotland for a peace betweene our Kingdomes A policie of loue which well becomes His wisedome and our care Hialas Your Majestie Doth vnderstand him rightly K: H Els your knowledge can instruct me wherein Sir To fall on Ceremonie would seeme vselesse Which shall not neede for I will be as studious Of your concealement in our Conference As any Counsell shall advise Hialas Then Sir My chiefe request is that on notice given At my dispatch in Scotland you will send Some learned man of power and experience To joyne in treatie with me K. H. I shall doe it Being that way well provided by a servant Which may attend 'ee ever Hialas If King Iames By any indirection should perceiue My comming neere your Court I doubt the issue Of my imployment K: H Be not your owne Herald I learne sometimes without a teacher Hialas Good dayes guard all your Princely thoughts K: H Vrswicke no further Then the next open Gallerie attend him A heartie loue goe with you Hialas Your vow'd Beadsman Ex Vrsw: and Hialas K: H King Ferdinand is not so much a Foxe But that a cunning Huntsman may in time Fall on the sent in honourable actions Safe imitation best deserues a prayse Enter Vrswicke What' the Castillians past away Vrsw: He is And vndiscovered the two hundred markes Your Majestie conveyde a' gentlie purst With a right modest gravitie K: H What wast A' mutterd in the earnest of his wisedome A' spoke not to be heard T was about Vrsw: Warbecke How if King Henry were but sure of Subjects Such a wilde runnagate might soone be cag'd No great adoe withstanding K: H Nay nay something About my sonne Prince Arthurs match Vrsw: Right right Sir A humd it out how that King Ferdinand Swore that the marriage 'twixt the Ladie Katherine His Daughter and the Prince of Wales your Sonne Should never be consummated as long As any Earle of Warwicke liv'd in England Except by newe Creation K: H I remember 'T was so indeede the King his Maister swore it Vrsw: Directly as he said K: H An Earle of Warwicke Provide a Messenger for Letters instantly To Bishop Fox Our newes from Scotland creepes It comes so slow wee must haue ayrie spirits Our time requires dispatch the Earle of Warwicke Let him be sonne to Clarence younger brother To
Katherine in her richest attyre Iane and attendants Oxf: Great Sir be pleas'd With your accustomed grace to entertaine The Princesse Katherine Gourdon K. H Oxford herein Wee must beshrew thy knowledge of our nature A Ladie of her birth and vertues could not Haue found Vs so vnfurnisht of good manners As not on notice given to haue mett her Halfe way in poynt of Loue Excuse fayre Cosen The oversight ô fye you may not kneele 'T is most vnfitting first vouchsafe this welcome A welcome to your owne for you shall finde Vs But guardian to your fortune and your honours Kath: My fortunes and mine honors are weake champions As both are now befriended Sir however Both bow before your clemencie K: H Our armes Shall circle them from malice 'A sweete Ladie Beautie incomparable Here liues Majestie At league with Loue Kath: O Sir I haue a husband K: H Wee 'le proue your father husband friend and servant Proue what you wish to graunt vs Lords be carefull A Pattent presently be drawne for issuing A thousand pounds from our Exchequer yearely During our Cosens life our Queene shall be Your chiefe companion our owne Court your Home Our Subjects all your servants Kath: But my husband K: H By all descriptions you are noble Daliell Whose generous truth hath fam'd a rare observance Wee thanke 'ee 't is a goodnesse giues addition To every title boasted from your Auncestrie In all most worthy Daliell Worthier then your prayses Right princely Sir I neede not glorie in K: H Embrace him Lords who ever calls you Mistresse Is lifted in our charge a goodlier beautie Mine eyes yet neere incountred Kath: Cruell misery Of fate what rests to hope for K: H Forward Lords To London fayre ere long I shall present 'ee Exeunt omnes With a glad object peace and Hunleys blessing Enter Constable and Officers Warbeck Vrswick and Lambert Simnell like a Falconer A payre of Stocks Const Make roome there keepe off I require 'ee and none come within twelue foote of his Majesties new Stockes vpon paine of displeasure Bring forward the Malefactors Friend you must to this geere no remedie open the hole and in with his legges just in the middle hole there that hole keepe off or I le commit you all Shall not a man in authoritie be obeyed So so there 't is as it should be put on the padlocke and giue me the key off I say keepe off Vrsw: Yet Warbecke cleere thy Conscience thou hast tasted King Henries mercie liberallie the Law Ha's forfeited thy life an equall Iurie Haue doom'd thee to the Gallowes twise most wickedly Most desperately hast thou escapt the Tower Inveighling to thy partie with thy witch-craft Young Edward Earle of Warwicke sonne to Clarence Whose head must pay the price of that attempt Poore Gentleman vnhappie in his fate And ruin'd by thy cunning so a Mungrell May plucke the true Stagge downe yet yet confesse Thy parentage for yet the King ha's mercy Lamb: You would be Dicke the fourth very likely Your pedigree is publisht you are knowne For Osbecks sonne of Turney a loose runnagate A Landloper your Father was a Iewe Turn'd Christian meerely to repayre his miseries Where 's now your Kingship Warb: Bayted to my death Intollerable crueltie I laugh at The Duke of Richmonds practise on my fortunes Possession of a Crowne ne're wanted Heraulds Lamb: You will not know who I am Vrs: Lambert Simnell Your predecessor in a daungerous vproare But on submission not alone receiu'd To grace but by the King vouchsaft his service Lamb: I would be Eare of Warwicke toyld and ruffled Against my Maister leapt to catch the Moone Vaunted my name Plantaginet as you doe An Earle forsooth When as in truth I was As you are a meere Rascall yet his Majestie A Prince compos'd of sweetnes Heaven protect him Forgaue mee all my villanies repriv'd The sentence of a shamefull end admitted My suretie of obedience to his service And I am now his Falkoner liue plenteously Eate from the Kings purse and enjoy the sweetnesse Of libertie and favour sleepe securely And is not this now better then to buffett The Hangmans clutches or to brave the Cordage Of a tough halter which will breake your necke So then the Gallant totters preethee Perkin Let my example leade thee be no longer A Counterfeite confesse and hope for pardon Warb: For pardon hold my heartstrings whiles contempt Of injuries in scorne may bid defiance To this base mans fowle language thou poore vermin How darst thou creepe so neere mee thou an Earle Why thou enjoyst as much of happinesse As all the swinge of sleight ambition flew at A dunghill was thy Cradle So a puddle By vertue of the Sun-beames breathes a vapour To infect the purer ayre which drops againe Into the muddie wombe that first exhal'd it Bread and a slavish ease with some assurance From the base Beadles whipp crownd all thy hopes But Sirra ran there in thy veynes one dropp Of such a royall bloud as flowes in mine Thou wouldst not change condition to be second In Englands State without the Crowne it selfe Course creatures are incapable of excellence But let the world as all to whom I am This day a spectacle to time deliver And by tradition fixe posteritie Without another Chronicle then truth How constantly my resolution suffer'd A martyrdome of Majestie Lamb: Hee s past Recovery a Bedlum cannot cure him Vrsw: Away enforme the King of his behaviour Lamb: Perkin beware the rope the Hangman 's comming Vrsw: If yet thou hast no pittie of thy bodie Pittie thy soule Exit Simnell Enter Katherine Iane Daliell and Oxford Iane Deare Ladie Oxf: Whither will 'ee Without respect of shame Kath: Forbeare me Sir And trouble not the current of my dutie Oh my Lov'd Lord Can any scorne be yours In which I haue no interest some kinde hand Lend me assistance that I may partake Th' infliction of this pennance my lifes deerest Forgiue me I haue stayd too long from tendring Attendance on reproach yet bid me welcome Warb: Great miracle of Constancie my miseries Were never banckrout of their confidence In worst afflictions till this now I feele them Report and thy Deserts thou best of creatures Might to eternitie haue stood a patterne For every Report wife without this conquest Thou hast out-done beliefe yet may their ruine In after marriages be never pittied To whom thy Storie shall appeare a fable Why wouldst thou proue so much vnkinde to greatnesse To glorifie thy vowes by such a servitude I cannot weepe but trust mee Deare my heart Is liberall of passion Harrie Richmond A womans faith hath robd thy fame of triumph Oxf: Sirra leaue off your jugling and tye vp The Devill that raunges in your tongue Vrs: Thus Witches Possest even their death 's deluded say They haue beene wolues and dogs and I sayld in Eggshells Over the Sea and rid on fierie Dragons Past in the ayre more then a thousand miles All in a
Edward Edwards Daughter is I thinke Mother to our Prince Arthur get a Messenger Exeunt Enter King Iames Warbecke Crawford Daliell Heron Astley Major Sketon and Souldiers K: Ia: Wee trifle time against these Castle walls The English Prelate will not yeelde once more Giue him a Summons Parley Enter aboue Durham armed a Truncheon in his hand and Souldiers Warb: See the jolly Clarke Appeares trimd like a ruffian K: Ia: Bishop yet Set ope the portes and to your lawfull Soveraigne Richard of Yorke surrender vp this Castle And he will take thee to his Grace else Tweede Shall overflow his banckes with English bloud And wash the sande that cements those hard stones From their foundation Dur: Warlike King of Scotland Vouchsafe a few words from a man inforc't To lay his Booke aside and clap on Armes Vnsutable to my age or my profession Couragious Prince consider on what grounds You rend the face of peace and breake a League With a confederate King that courts your amitie For whom too for a vagabond a straggler Not noted in the world by birth of name An obscure peasant by the rage of Hell Loosd from his chaynes to set great Kings at strife What Nobleman what common man of note What ordinary subject hath come in Since first you footed on our Territories To onely faine a wellcome children laugh at Your Proclamations and the wiser pittie So great a Potentates abuse by one Who juggles meerly with the fawnes and youth Of an instructed complement such spoyles Such slaughters as the rapine of your Souldiers Alreadie haue committed is enough To shew your zeale in a conceited Iustice Yet great King wake not yet my Maisters vengeance But shake that Viper off which gnawes your entrayles I and my fellow Subjects are resolv'd If you persist to stand your vtmost furie Till our last bloud drop from vs Warb: O Sir lend Me eare to this seducer of my honor What shall I call thee thou gray bearded Scandall That kickst against the Soveraigntie to which Thou owest alleagance Treason is bold-fac'd And eloquent in mischiefe sacred King Be deafe to his knowne malice Dur: Rather yeelde Vnto those holy motions which inspire The sacred heart of an annoynted bodie It is the surest pollicie in Princes To governe well their owne then seeke encroachment Vpon anothers right Crawf: The King is serious Deepe in his meditation Dal: Lift them vp To heaven his better genius Warb: Can you studie while such a Devill raues O Sir K: Ia. Well Bishopp You 'le not be drawne to mercie Dur: Conster me In like case by a Subject of your owne My resolutions fixt King Iames be counseld A greater fate waites on thee Exit Durham cum suis K: Ia: Forrage through The Countrey spare no prey of life or goods Warb: O Sir then giue me leaue to yeeld to nature I am most miserable had I beene Borne what this Clergie man would by defame Baffle beliefe with I had never sought The truth of mine inheritance with rapes Of women or of infants murthered Virgins Defloured olde men butchered dwellings fir'd My Land depopulated and my people Afflicted with a Kingdomes devastation Shew more remorse great King or I shall never Endure to see such havocke with drie eyes Spare spare my deare deare England K: Ia: You foole your pietie Ridiculously carefull of an interest Another man possesseth Where 's your faction Shrewdly the Bishop ghest of your adherents When not a pettie Burgesse of some Towne No not a Villager hath yet appear'd In your assistance that should make 'ee whine And not your Countryes sufferance as you tearme it Dal: The King is angrie Crawf: And the passionate Duke Effeminately dolent Warb: The experience In former tryalls Sir both of mine owne Or other Princes cast out of their thrones Haue so acquainted mee how miserie Is destitute of friends or of reliefe That I can easily submit to taste Lowest reproofe without contempt or words Enter Frion K: Ia: An humble minded man now what intelligence Speakes Maister Secretarie Frion Frion Henrie Of England hath in open field ore'throwne The Armies who opposd him in the right Of this young Prince K: Ia: His Subsidies you meane more if you haue it Frion Howard Earle of Surrey Backt by twelue Earles and Barons of the North An hundred Knights and Gentlemen of Name And twentie thousand Souldiers is at hand To raise your siege Brooke with a goodly Navie Is Admirall at Sea and Dawbney followes With an vnbroken Armie for a second Warb: 'T is false they come to side with vs K: Ia: Retreate Wee shall not finde them stones and walls to cope with Yet Duke of Yorke for such thou sayest thou art I le trie thy fortune to the height to Surrey By Marchmount I will send a braue Defiance For single Combate once a King will venter His person to an Earle with Condition Of spilling lesser bloud Surrey is bolde And Iames resolv'd Warb: O rather gracious Sir Create me to this glorie since my cause Doth interest this fayre quarrell valued least I am his equall K: I I will be the man March softly off where Victorie can reape A harvest crown'd with triumph toyle is cheape Exeunt omnes Actus Quartus Scaena prima Enter Surrey Durham Souldiers with Drummes and Collors Surrey ARe all our braving enemies shrunke backe Hid in the fogges of their distempered climate Not daring to behold our Colours wave In spight of this infected ayre Can they Looke on the strength of Cundrestine defac't The glorie of Heydonhall devasted that Of Edington cast downe the pile of Fulden Orethrowne And this the strongest of their Forts Olde Ayton Castle yeelded and demolished And yet not peepe abroad the Scots are bold Hardie in battayle but it seemes the cause They vndertake considered appeares Vnjoynted in the frame on t Dur: Noble Surrey Our Royall Masters wisedome is at all times His fortunes Harbinger for when he drawes His sword to threaten warre his providence Settles on peace the crowning of an Empire Trumpet Sur: Rancke all in order 't is a Heralds sound Some message from King Iames keepe a fixt station Enter March-mount and another Herald in their Coates March: From Scotlands awfull Majestie wee come Vnto the English Generall Surrey To me Say on March: Thus then the wast and prodigall Effusion of so much guiltlesse bloud As in two potent Armies of necessitie Must glut the earths drie wombe his sweet compassion Hath studied to prevent for which to thee Great Earle of Surrey in a single fight He offers his owne royall person fayrely Proposing these conditions onely that If Victorie conclude our Masters right The Earle shall deliver for his ransome The towne of Barwicke to him with the Fishgarths If Surrey shall prevaile the King will paie A thousand pounds downe present for his freedome And silence further Armes so speakes King Iames Surr So speakes King Iames so like a King a' speakes Heralds the English Generall