Page 727 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

HOTSPUR

Home without boots, and in foul weather too?
How scapes he agues, in the devil’s name?

GLENDOWER
Come, here is the map. Shall we divide our right [70]
According to our threefold order ta’en?

MORTIMER

The archdeacon hath divided it
Into three limits very equally.
England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,
By south and east is to my part assigned; [75]
All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore,

And all the fertile land within that bound,
To Owen Glendower; and, dear coz, to you
The remnant northward lying off from Trent.

And our indentures tripartite are drawn, [80]
Which being sealèd interchangeably
(A business that this night may execute),
To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I
And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth

To meet your father and the Scottish power, [85]
As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
My father Glendower is not ready yet,

Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days.
[To Glendower.]
Within that space you may have drawn together
Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen. [90]

GLENDOWER
A shorter time shall send me to you, lords;

And in my conduct shall your ladies come,
From whom you now must steal and take no leave,
For there will be a world of water shed
Upon the parting of your wives and you. [95]

HOTSPUR