SCENE III.—GATES OF LONDON.

Enter Catagrinus, Hengist, and Horsus, with Saxon troops, in grand procession.

Cata. Here halt we then, and let the trumpet sound.

[Trumpet sounds. Officer appears on the walls.

Off. Say, be ye friends or foes?

Cata. My father sent us hence to Saxony;

Go, say our embassy is now fulfill’d.

[Trumpet sounds.

Yet soft, that sound proclaims his quick approach.

Heng. Throughout the ranks let each man be prepar’d,