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WORCESTER
Nay, if you have not, to it again.
We will stay your leisure.
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WORCESTER
No, if you’re not done yet, keep going. We’ll wait until you’re ready.
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HOTSPUR
I have done, i' faith.
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HOTSPUR
I’m done. I swear.
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WORCESTER
Then once more to your Scottish prisoners:
Deliver them up without their ransom straight,
And make the Douglas' son your only mean
For powers in Scotland, which, for divers reasons
Which I shall send you written, be assured
Will easily be granted.—(to
NORTHUMBERLAND) You,
my lord,
Your son in Scotland being thus employed,
Shall secretly into the bosom creep
Of that same noble prelate, well beloved,
The Archbishop.
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WORCESTER
Then go back to your Scottish prisoners. Release them at once, without ransom. Make friends with Douglas, and use his influence to gather an army in Scotland. He’ll gladly help you for many reasons, which I’ll write you about soon. (to NORTHUMBERLAND) Now you, sir. While your son is busy in Scotland, you will strike up a close alliance with the Archbishop, that noble, well-beloved churchman.
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HOTSPUR
Of York, is it not?
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HOTSPUR
He is the Archbishop of York, no?
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WORCESTER
True; who bears hard
His brother’s death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.
I speak not this in estimation,
As what I think might be, but what I know
Is ruminated, plotted, and set down,
And only stays but to behold the face
Of that occasion that shall bring it on.
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WORCESTER
Yes, and he’s sorely upset about his brother, Lord Scroop, whom Bolingbroke put to death in Bristol. I’m not merely speculating; I’m telling you what I know for a fact has been considered, plotted, and set into motion. They’re only waiting now for the right moment to strike.
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HOTSPUR
I smell it. Upon my life, it will do well.
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HOTSPUR
I get it. And it’s good, I bet my life on it!
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NORTHUMBERLAND
Before the game is afoot thou still let’st slip.
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NORTHUMBERLAND
Look, you’ve let your dogs slip off of their leashes before the hunt has even begun.
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HOTSPUR
Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot.
And then the power of Scotland and of York
To join with Mortimer, ha?
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HOTSPUR
There’s no way this excellent plan won’t work. And the armies of Scotland and York will join with Mortimer, right?
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