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BOLINGBROKE Exeunt.

An offer, uncle, that we will accept;
But we must win your grace to go with us
To Bristow castle, which they say is held
By Bushy, Bagot, and their complices,
The caterpillars of the commonwealth, [165]
Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

Y ORK

It may be I will go with you, but yet I’ll pause;
For I am loath to break our country’s laws.
Nor friends, nor foes, to me welcome you are.
Things past redress are now with me past care. [170]

Scene IV IT

Enter Earl of Salisbury and a Welsh Captain.

CAPT AIN

My Lord of Salisbury, we have stay’d ten days
And hardly kept our countrymen together,
And yet we hear no tidings from the King.
Therefore we will disperse ourselves. Farewell.

SALISBURY

Stay yet another day, thou trusty Welshman. [5]
The King reposeth all his confidence in thee.

CAPT AIN

’Tis thought the King is dead. We will not stay.
The bay trees in our country are all withered,
And meteors fright the fixèd stars of heaven,
The pale-fac’d moon looks bloody on the earth, [10]
And lean-look’d prophets whisper fearful change,
Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap,
The one in fear to lose what they enjoy,
The other to enjoy by rage and war.
These signs forerun the death or fall of kings. [15]
Farewell. Our countrymen are gone and fled,