And tender them the crown? Yet do we find
They come with foreign aid and civil war,
To bear the sway and empire over us.
Can any present say why this should be?
1st Bar. No! they’re the sons of our late king, ’tis true;
As such, the elder doth, by right, inherit
The crown and kingdom; and, in their defence,
Our lives, yea, and our very best heart’s blood,
Were truly offer’d, which we now revoke:
And, since they tear the bowels of our land,