The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 5 of 9] · William Shakespeare
SCENE IX. _Kenilworth Castle_.
_Enter a Messenger_. _Mess._ Please it your grace to be advertised The Duke of York is newly come from Ireland, And with a puissant and a mighty power [bdi025] Of gallowglasses and stout kernes [bdi026] Is marching hitherward in proud array, And still proclaimeth, as he comes along, His arms are only to remove from thee [bdi029] The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms a traitor. ·bdi030· _King._ Thus stands my state, ’twixt Cade and York distress’d; Like to a ship that, having ’scaped a tempest Is straightway calm’d and boarded with a pirate: [bdi033] But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed; [bdi034] And now is York in arms to second him. ·bdi035· I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him, [bdi036] And ask him what’s the reason of these arms. Tell him I’ll send Duke Edmund to the Tower; And, Somerset, we will commit thee hither, Until his army be dismiss’d from him. ·bdi040· _Som._ My lord, I’ll yield myself to prison willingly, Or unto death, to do my country good. _King._ In any case, be not too rough in terms; For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language. ·bdi045· _Buck._ I will, my lord; and doubt not so to deal As all things shall redound unto your good. _King._ Come, wife, let’s in, and learn to govern better; For yet may England curse my wretched reign. [bdi049] [_Flourish. Exeunt._
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