Page 764 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

To whom they are directed. If you knew
How much they do import, you would make haste. [5]

SIR MICHAEL
My good lord,
I guess their tenor.

ARCHBISHOP
Like enough you do.

To-morrow, good Sir Michael, is a day
Wherein the fortune of ten thousand men
Must bide the touch; for, sir, at Shrewsbury, [10]
As I am truly given to understand,

The king with mighty and quick-raisèd power
Meets with Lord Harry; and I fear, Sir Michael,
What with the sickness of Northumberland,
Whose power was in the first proportion, [15]

And what with Owen Glendower’s absence thence,
Who with them was a rated sinew too
And comes not in, overruled by prophecies −
I fear the power of Percy is too weak

To wage an instant trial with the king. [20]

SIR MICHAEL
Why, my good lord, you need not fear;
There is Douglas and Lord Mortimer.

ARCHBISHOP
No, Mortimer is not there.

SIR MICHAEL
But there is Mordake, Vernon, Lord Harry Percy,
And there is my Lord of Worcester, and a head [25]

Of gallant warriors, noble gentlemen.

ARCHBISHOP
And so there is; but yet the king hath drawn