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BOLINGBROKE
So that by this intelligence we learn
The Welshmen are dispers’d, and Salisbury
Is gone to meet the King, who lately landed
With some few private friends upon this coast.
NORT HUMBERLAND
The news is very fair and good, my lord. [5]
Richard not far from hence hath hid his head.
Y ORK
It would beseem the Lord Northumberland
To say “King Richard”. Alack the heavy day
When such a sacred king should hide his head!
NORT HUMBERLAND
Your grace mistakes. Only to be brief [10]
Left I his title out.
Y ORK
The time hath been,
Would you have been so brief with him, he would
Have been so brief [with you] to shorten you,
For taking so the head, your whole head’s length.
BOLINGBROKE
Mistake not, uncle, further than you should. [15]
Y ORK
Take not, good cousin, further than you should,
Lest you mistake the heavens are over our heads.
BOLINGBROKE
I know it, uncle, and oppose not myself
Against their will. But who comes here?
Enter Percy.
Welcome, Harry. What, will not this castle yield? [20]
PERCY
The castle royally is mann’d, my lord,
