But with proviso and exception,79 80 That we at our own charge80 shall ransom straight His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer, Who, in my soul, hath wilfully betrayed The lives of those that he did lead to fight Against the great magician, damned Glendower, 85 Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March85 Hath lately married. Shall our coffers,86 then, Be emptied to redeem a traitor home? Shall we buy treason, and indent88 with fears When they have lost and
But with proviso and exception,79 80 That we at our own charge80 shall ransom straight His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer, Who, in my soul, hath wilfully betrayed The lives of those that he did lead to fight Against the great magician, damned Glendower, 85 Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March85 Hath lately married. Shall our coffers,86 then, Be emptied to redeem a traitor home? Shall we buy treason, and indent88 with fears When they have lost and forfeited themselves? 90 No, on the barren mountain let him starve, For I shall never hold that man my friend Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost To ransom home revolted93 Mortimer. HOTSPUR Revolted Mortimer? 95 He never did fall off,95 my sovereign liege, But by the chance of war. To prove that true Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds, Those mouthèd98 wounds, which valiantly he took When on the gentle Severn’s sedgy bank,99 100 In single opposition, hand to hand, He did confound101 the best part of an hour In changing hardiment102 with great Glendower. Three times they breathed103 and three times did they drink, Upon agreement,104 of swift Severn’s flood; 105 Who then, affrighted105 with...
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