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Come, sing.

Lady P. I will not sing.

Hot. 'Tis the next way to turn tailor or be

red-breast teacher. An the indentures be drawn,

I'll away within these two hours; and so, come

in when ye will.

Glend. Come, come. Lord Mortimer; you are as slow

As hot Lord Percy is on fire to go.

By this our book is drawn; we will but seal,

And then to horse immediately.

Mort. With all my heart.

King. Lords, give us leave; the Prince of Wales and I

Must have some private conference: but be near at hand,

For we shall presently have need of you.

Exeunt Lords.

I know not whether God will have it so,

For some displeasing service I have done,

That, in his secret doom, out of my blood

He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me;

But thou dost in thy passages of life

Make me believe that thou art only mark'd

For the hot vengeance and the rod of heaven

To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else,

Could such inordinate and low desires,

 263 tailor; cf. n.

264 red-breast teacher: trainer of singing-birds

 1 give leave: leave us

3 presently: immediately

6 doom: judgment

8 thy passages of life: the actions of thy life 