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Against ill chances men are ever merry,
But heaviness foreruns the good event.
WESTMORELAND
Therefore be merry, coz, since sudden sorrow
Serves to say thus, ‘Some good thing comes to-morrow.’
ARCHBISHOP
Believe me, I am passing light in spirit. [85]
MOWBRAY
So much the worse, if your own rule be true.
Shouts [within].
LANCASTER
The word of peace is rendered. Hark, how they shout!
MOWBRAY
This had been cheerful after victory.
ARCHBISHOP
A peace is of the nature of a conquest,
For then both parties nobly are subdued, [90]
And neither party loser.
LANCASTER
Go, my lord,
And let our army be dischargèd too.
[Exit Westmoreland.]
And, good my lord, so please you, let our trains
March by us, that we may peruse the men
We should have coped withal.
ARCHBISHOP
Go, good Lord Hastings, [95]
And, ere they be dismissed, let them march by.
[Exit Hastings.]
