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[SCENE XIX.]

Enter M ORTIMER with his Soldiers [D AVID led captive ] and the Lady E LINOR .

[SCENE XVIII.]

Enter the Friar with a halter about his neck.

[SCENE XVII.]

Enter L LUELLEN running out before, and D AVID with a halter ready to hang himself .

Lluellen. The angry heavens frown'd on Britain's face
To eclipse the glory of fair Cambria:
With sour aspects the dreadful planets lower.
Lluellen, basely turn thy back and fly?
No, Welshmen fight it to the last and die;
For if my men safely have got the bride,
Careless of chance I'll reck no sour event.
England's broad womb hath not that armed band
That can expel Lluellen from his land.

[SCENE XVI.]

Enter Queen E LINOR .

Q. Elinor. Now fits the time to purge our melancholy,
And be revenged upon this London dame. —
Katherina!

Enter K ATHERINA .

Katherina. At hand, madam.
Q. Elinor. Bring forth our London Mayoress here.
Katherina. I will, madam.
Q. Elinor. Now, Nell,
Bethink thee of some tortures for the dame,
And purge thy choler to the uttermost.

Enter Mayoress and K ATHERINA .

[SCENE XV.]

After the sight of John B ALIOL is done, enter M ORTIMER pursuing of the rebels .

Mortimer. Strike up that drum! follow, pursue, and chase!
Follow, pursue! spare not the proudest he
That havocks England's sacred royalty!

Then make the proclamation upon the walls. Sound trumpets.

[SCENE XIV.]

Enter B ALIOL with his train .

Baliol. Princes of Scotland and my loving friends,
Whose necks are overwearied with the yoke
And servile bondage of these Englishmen,
Lift up your horns, and with your brazen hoofs
Spurn at the honour of your enemies.
'Tis not ambitious thoughts of private rule
Have forced your king to take on him these arms;
'Tis country's cause; it is the common good
Of us and of our brave posterity.
To arms, to arms!

[SCENE XIII.]

After the christening and marriage done, the Harrolds having attended, they pass over; the Bride is led by two Noblemen, E DMUND of Lancaster and the Earl OF S USSEX ; and the Bishop.

Glocester . Welcome, Joan, Countess of Glocester, to Gilbert de Clare for ever!
Sussex . God give them joy! — Cousin Glocester, let us now go visit the king and queen, and present their majesties with their young son, Edward Prince of Wales.

[SCENE XII.]

Enter the Friar D AVID alone .

[SCENE XI.]

Enter [J ACK ] the Novice and his company, to give the Queen music at her tent .

Jack . Come, fellows, cast yourselves even round in a string — a ring I would say: come, merrily on my word, for the queen is most liberal, and if you will please her well, she will pay you royally: so, lawful to brave well thy British lustily to solace our good queen: God save her grace, and give our young prince a carpell in their kind! Come on, come on, set your crowds, and beat your heads together, and behave you handsomely.

Enter J OHN

B ALIOL K ing of Scots, with his train [ and V ERSSES ].
Baliol . Lords of Albania, and my peers in France,
Since Baliol is invested in his rights,
And wears the royal Scottish diadem,
Time is to rouse him, that the world may wot
Scotland disdains to carry England's yoke.
Therefore, my friends, thus put in readiness,
Why slack we time to greet the English king
With resolute message, to let him know our minds?
Lord Versses, though thy faith and oath be ta'en