Should lightly be contemned by a king?
When Lucius sent but for his tribute due,
You went with thirteen kings to root him out.
Have Romans, for requiring but their own,
Abode your nine years’ brunts? Shall Mordred ’scape,
That wrong’d you thus in honour, queen, and realm?
Were this no cause to stir a king to wrath,
Yet should your conquests, late achiev’d ’gainst Rome,
Inflame your mind with thirst of full revenge.
Arthur. Indeed, continual wars have chaf’d our minds,