Page 2964 - Shakespeare - Vol. 1

The next news is, I have to London sent
The heads of Oxford, Salisbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent.
The manner of their taking may appear
At large discoursèd in this paper here. [10]

BOLINGBROKE

We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains;
And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.

Enter Lord Fitzwater.

FIT ZWAT ER

My lord, I have from Oxford sent to London
The heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,
Two of the dangerous consorted traitors [15]
That sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.

BOLINGBROKE

Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot.
Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.

Enter Percy and [the Bishop of] Carlisle.

PERCY

The grand conspirator Abbot of Westminster
With clog of conscience and sour melancholy [20]
Hath yielded up his body to the grave;
But here is Carlisle living, to abide
Thy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.

BOLINGBROKE

Carlisle, this is your doom:
Choose out some secret place, some reverent room [25]
More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life.
So as thou liv’st in peace, die free from strife;
For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,
High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.

Enter Exton with the coffin.

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