K. of E. Agreed, now ttumpets sound a dreadfull charge
Fight for your Princesse, braue English men:
Now for your lands your children and your wiues, 2440
My Scottish Peeres, and lastly for your King.
Alarũ soũded, both the battailes offer to meet, & as the
Kings are ioyning battaile, Enter sir Cutber tohis Lady
Cutbert, with the Queene Dorothea richly attired.
S. Cut. Stay Princes wage not warre, a priuie grudge
Twixt such as you (most high in Maiestie)
Afflicts both nocent and the innocent,
How many swordes deere Princes see I drawne?
The friend against his friend, a deadly friend:
A desperate diuision in those lands, 2450
Which if they ioyne in one, commaund the world.
Oh stay with reason mittigate your rage,
And let an old man humbled on his knees,
Intreat a boone good Princes of you both.
K. of En. I condiscend, for why thy reuerend years
Import some newes of truth and consequence,
I am content, for Anderson I know.
K. of S. Thou art my subiect and doest meane me good.
S. Cut. And. But by your gratious fauours grant me this,
To sweare vpon your sword to do me right. 2460
K. of Eng. See by my sword, and by a Princes faith,
In euery lawfull sort I am thine owne.
K. of S. And by my Scepter and the Scortish Crowne,
I am resolu’d to grant thee thy request.
Cutb. I see you trust me Princes who repose,
The waight of such a warre vpon my will.
Now marke my sute, a tender Lyons whelpe,
This other day came stragling in the woods,
Attended by a young and tender hinde,
In courage hautie, yet tyred like a lambe, 2470
The Prince of beasts had left this young in keepe,
To foster vp as louemate and compeere,
Vnto the Lyons mate a naibour friend,
This stately guide seduced by the fox,
Sent forth an eger Woolfe bred vp in France,
That gript the tender whelp, and wounded it.
By chance as I was hunting in the woods,
I heard the moane the hinde made for the whelpe,
I tooke them both, and brought them to my house,
With charie care I haue recurde the one, 2480
And since I know the lyons are at strife,
About the losse and dammage of the young,
I bring her home, make claime to her who list.
Hee discouereth her.