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Who loves the king and will embrace his pardon,
Fling up his cap and say, ‘God save his majesty!’
Who hateth him and honours not his father, [15]
Henry the Fifth, that made all France to quake,
Shake he his weapon at us and pass by.

[The rebels fling up their caps and forsake Cade.]

ALL

God save the king! God save the king!

CADE

What, Buckingham and Clifford, are ye so brave? - And you, base
peasants, do ye believe him? Will you [20] needs be hanged with your
pardons about your necks? Hath my sword therefore broke through London
gates that you should leave me at the White Hart in Southwark? I thought
ye would never have given out these arms till you had recovered your
ancient freedom: but [25] you are all recreants and dastards, and delight
to live in slavery to the nobility. Let them break your backs with burdens,
take your houses over your heads, ravish your wives and daughters before
your faces. For me, I will make shift for one! And so God’s curse light upon
[30] you all!

[They run to Cade again.]

ALL

We’ll follow Cade! We’ll follow Cade!

CLIFFORD

Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth
That thus you do exclaim you’ll go with him?
Will he conduct you through the heart of France [35]
And make the meanest of you earls and dukes?
Alas, he hath no home, no place to fly to;
Nor knows he how to live but by the spoil,
Unless by robbing of your friends and us.
Were’t not a shame that, whilst you live at jar, [40]
The fearful French, whom you late vanquishèd,
Should make a start o’er-seas and vanquish you?
Methinks already in this civil broil
I see them lording it in London streets,
Crying ‘Villiago’ unto all they meet. [45]