Act V · Scene VI
Windsor castle.
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Flourish. Enter HENRY BOLINGBROKE, DUKE OF YORK, with other Lords, and Attendants
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Kind uncle York, the latest news we hearIs that the rebels have consumed with fireOur town of Cicester in Gloucestershire;But whether they be ta'en or slain we hear not.
Enter NORTHUMBERLAND
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Welcome, my lord what is the news?
NORTHUMBERLAND
First, to thy sacred state wish I all happiness.The next news is, I have to London sentThe heads of Oxford, Salisbury, Blunt, and Kent:The manner of their taking may appearAt large discoursed in this paper here.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
We thank thee, gentle Percy, for thy pains;And to thy worth will add right worthy gains.
Enter LORD FITZWATER
LORD FITZWATER
My lord, I have from Oxford sent to LondonThe heads of Brocas and Sir Bennet Seely,Two of the dangerous consorted traitorsThat sought at Oxford thy dire overthrow.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Thy pains, Fitzwater, shall not be forgot;Right noble is thy merit, well I wot.
Enter HENRY PERCY, and the BISHOP OF CARLISLE
HENRY PERCY
The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,With clog of conscience and sour melancholyHath yielded up his body to the grave;But here is Carlisle living, to abideThy kingly doom and sentence of his pride.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Carlisle, this is your doom:Choose out some secret place, some reverend room,More than thou hast, and with it joy thy life;So as thou livest in peace, die free from strife:For though mine enemy thou hast ever been,High sparks of honour in thee have I seen.
Enter EXTON, with persons bearing a coffin
EXTON
Great king, within this coffin I presentThy buried fear: herein all breathless liesThe mightiest of thy greatest enemies,Richard of Bordeaux, by me hither brought.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
Exton, I thank thee not; for thou hast wroughtA deed of slander with thy fatal handUpon my head and all this famous land.
EXTON
From your own mouth, my lord, did I this deed.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE
They love not poison that do poison need,Nor do I thee: though I did wish him dead,I hate the murderer, love him murdered.The guilt of conscience take thou for thy labour,But neither my good word nor princely favour:With Cain go wander through shades of night,And never show thy head by day nor light.Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe,That blood should sprinkle me to make me grow:Come, mourn with me for that I do lament,And put on sullen black incontinent:I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land,To wash this blood off from my guilty hand:March sadly after; grace my mournings here;In weeping after this untimely bier.
Exeunt