for a stray, for entering his fee-simple without leave. Ah, villain, thou wilt betray me, and get a thousand crowns of the king by carrying my head to him: but I'll make thee eat iron like an ostrich, and swallow my sword like a great pin, ere thou and I part. IDEN. Why, rude companion, whatsoe'er thou be, I know thee not; why, then, should I betray thee? Is 't not enough to break into my garden, And, like a thief, to come to rob my grounds, Look on me well: I have eat no meat these five days; yet, come thou and thy five men, and if I do not leave you all as dead as a door-nail, I never eat grass more. pray God I may IDEN. Nay, it shall ne'er be said, while England stands, That Alexander Iden, an esquire of Kent, Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon; Thy grave is digg'd already in the earth. As for words, whose greatness answers words, Let this my sword report what speech forbears. CADE. By my valour, the most complete champion that ever I heard! Steel, if thou turn the edge, or cut not out the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees thou mayst be turned to hobnails. [Here they fight. CADE falls.] O, I am slain! famine and no other hath slain me: let ten thousand devils come against me, and give me but the ten meals I have lost, and I'ld defy them all. Wither, garden; and be henceforth a burying-place to all that do dwell in this house, because the unconquered soul of Cade is fled. IDEN. Is't Cade that I have slain, that monstrous Sword, I will hallow thee for this thy deed, CADE. Iden, farewell, and be proud of thy victory. Tell Kent from me, she hath lost her best man, and exhort all the world to be cowards; for I, that never feared any, am vanquished by famine, not by valour. [Dies. IDEN. How much thou wrong'st me, heaven be my judge. Die,damned wretch, the curse of her that bare thee; And as I thrust thy body in with my sword, So wish I, I might thrust thy soul to hell. H Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels ACT THE FIFTH. SCENE I. Fields between Dartford and Blackheath. Enter YORK, and his army of Irish, with drum YORK. From Ireland thus comes York to claim his right, And pluck the crown from feeble Henry's head: Ring, bells, aloud; burn, bonfires, clear and bright, To entertain great England's lawful king. Ah! sancta majestas, who would not buy thee dear? Let them obey that know not how to rule; On which I'll toss the flower-de-luce of France. Enter BUCKINGHAM. Whom have we here? Buckingham, to disturb me? The king hath sent him, sure: I must dissemble. BUCK. York, if thou meanest well, I greet thee well. YORK. Humphrey of Buckingham, I accept thy greeting. Art thou a messenger, or come of pleasure? BUCK. A messenger from Henry, our dread liege, To know the reason of these arms in peace; Against thy oath and true allegiance sworn, O, I could hew up rocks and fight with flint, And now, like Ajax Telamonius, On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury. I am far better born than is the king, More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts: That I have given no answer all this while; Is to remove proud Somerset from the king, BUCK. That is too much presumption on thy part: But if thy arms be to no other end, The king hath yielded unto thy demand: YORK. Upon thine honour, is he prisoner? powers. Soldiers, I thank you all; disperse yourselves; As pledges of my fealty and love; my sons, I'll send them all as willing as I live: Lands, goods, horse, armour, any thing I have, BUCK. York, I commend this kind submission : We twain will go into his highness' tent. Enter KING and Attendants. KING. Buckingham, doth York intend no harm to us, That thus he marcheth with thee arm in arm? YORK. In all submission and humility York doth present himself unto your highness. KING. Then what intends these forces thou dost bring? YORK. To heave the traitor Somerset from hence, |