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And good reason, for thereby is England mained and fain to go with a staff,
but that my puissance holds it up. Fellow kings, I tell you that that Lord
Say hath gelded the [160] commonwealth and made it an eunuch; and
more than that, he can speak French; and therefore he is a traitor.

ST AFFORD

O gross and miserable ignorance!

CADE

Nay, answer if you can: the Frenchmen are our enemies; go to then - I ask
but this: can he that speaks with [165] the tongue of an enemy be a good
councillor, or no?

ALL

No, no, and therefore we’ll have his head.

BROT HER

Well, seeing gentle words vill not prevail,
Assail them with the army of the king.

ST AFFORD

Herald, away, and throughout every town [170]
Proclaim them traitors that are up with Cade;
That those which fly before the battle ends
May, even in their wives’ and children’s sight,
Be hanged up for example at their doors:
And you that be the king’s friends follow me. [175]

[Exeunt the two Staffords and forces.]

CADE

And you that love the commons, follow me.
Now show yourselves men; ’tis for liberty.
We will not leave one lord, one gentleman:
Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon,
For they are thrifty honest men and such [180]
As would, but that they dare not, take our parts.

DICK

They are all in order and march toward us.