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BOLINGBROKE

Strong as a tower in hope, I cry “Amen!”.

MARSHAL

Go bear this lance to Thomas, Duke of Norfolk.

FIRST HERALD

Harry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby
Stands here for God, his sovereign, and himself, [105]
On pain to be found false and recreant,
To prove the Duke of Norfolk, Thomas Mowbray,
A traitor to his God, his king, and him,
And dares him to set forward to the fight.

SECOND HERALD

Here standeth Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, [110]
On pain to be found false and recreant,
Both to defend himself and to approve
Henry of Hereford, Lancaster, and Derby
To God, his sovereign, and to him disloyal,
Courageously and with a free desire [115]
Attending but the signal to begin.

MARSHAL A charge sounded.

Sound, trumpets; and set forward, combatants!

Stay! The King hath thrown his warder down.

RICHARD

Let them lay by their helmets and their spears
And both return back to their chairs again. - [120]
Withdraw with us, and let the trumpets sound
While we return these dukes what we decree.

A long flourish.
Draw near,
And list what with our council we have done.
For that our kingdom’s earth should not be soiled [125]
With that dear blood which it hath fosterèd,
And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect
Of civil wounds plough’d up with neighbours’ sword,