Page 1619 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

ABERGAVENNY

I cannot tell
What heaven hath given him: let some graver eye
Pierce into that; but I can see his pride

Peep through each part of him. Whence has he that?
If not from hell, the devil is a niggard, [70]
Or has given all before, and he begins
A new hell in himself.

BUCKINGHAM
Why the devil,

Upon this French going out, took he upon him
(Without the privity o’th’King) t’appoint
Who should attend on him? He makes up the file [75]
Of all the gentry; for the most part such

To whom as great a charge as little honour
He meant to lay upon; and his own letter
The honourable board of Council out,
Must fetch him in, he papers.

ABERGAVENNY
I do know [80]

Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have
By this so sickened their estates that never
They shall abound as formerly.

BUCKINGHAM
O, many

Have broke their backs with laying manors on ’em
For this great journey. What did this vanity [85]
But minister communication of
A most poor issue?

NORFOLK
Grievingly I think

The peace between the French and us not values
The cost that did conclude it.