Page 762 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Swore him assistance, and performed it too. [65]
Now when the lords and barons of the realm
Perceived Northumberland did lean to him,
The more and less came in with cap and knee;

Met him in boroughs, cities, villages,
Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes, [70]
Laid gifts before him, proffered him their oaths,
Gave him their heirs as pages, followed him

Even at the heels in golden multitudes.
He presently, as greatness knows itself,
Steps me a little higher than his vow [75]
Made to my father, while his blood was poor,

Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurgh;
And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform
Some certain edicts and some strait decrees
That lie too heavy on the commonwealth; [80]

Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
Over his country’s wrongs; and by this face,
This seeming brow of justice, did he win
The hearts of all that he did angle for;

Proceeded further − cut me off the heads [85]
Of all the favourites that the absent king
In deputation left behind him here
When he was personal in the Irish war.

BLUNT

Tut! I came not to hear this.

HOTSPUR

Then to the point.
In short time after, he deposed the king; [90]
Soon after that deprived him of his life;
And in the neck of that tasked the whole state;

To make that worse, suff’red his kinsman March
(Who is, if every owner were well placed,
Indeed his king) to be engaged in Wales, [95]
There without ransom to lie forfeited;

Disgraced me in my happy victories,