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We fortify in paper, and in figures,

Using the names of men instead of men:

Like one that draws the model of a house

Beyond his power to build it; who, half through,

Gives o'er and leaves his part-created cost

A naked subject to the weeping clouds,

And waste for churlish winter's tyranny.

Hast. Grant that our hopes, yet likely of fair birth,

Should be still-born, and that we now possess'd

The utmost man of expectation;

I think we are a body strong enough,

Even as we are, to equal with the king.

L. Bard. What! is the king but five-and-twenty thousand?

Hast. To us no more; nay, not so much, Lord Bardolph.

For his divisions, as the times do brawl,

Are in three heads: one power against the French,

And one against Glendower; perforce, a third

Must take up us: so is the unfirm king

In three divided, and his coffers sound

With hollow poverty and emptiness.

Arch. That he should draw his several strengths together

And come against us in full puissance,

Need not be dreaded.

Hast.If he should do so,

He leaves his back unarm'd, the French and Welsh

Baying him at the heels: never fear that.

L. Bard. Who is it like should lead his forces hither?

Hast. The Duke of Lancaster and Westmoreland;

 60 part-created cost: costly fragment

62 churlish: rough

70 as brawl: as the turbulent times dictate

81 like: probable 