I am prepared to join it ...

Cha. Hear me, Strafford!

Straf. ... When, for some little thing, my whole design

Is set aside—(where is the wretched paper?)

I am to lead—(ay, here it is)—to lead

The English army: why? Northumberland,

That I appointed, chooses to be sick—

Is frightened: and, meanwhile, who answers for

The Irish Parliament? or army, either?

Is this my plan?