Enter Sir Humphrey Stafford and his Brother with Drum and soldiers.
STAFFORD.
Rebellious hinds, the filth and scum of Kent,
Marked for the gallows, lay your weapons down;
Home to your cottages, forsake this groom.
The King is merciful, if you revolt.
BROTHER.
But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood,
If you go forward. Therefore yield, or die.
CADE.
As for these silken-coated slaves, I pass not.
It is to you, good people, that I speak,
Over whom, in time to come, I hope to reign,
For I am rightful heir unto the crown.
STAFFORD.
Villain, thy father was a plasterer,
And thou thyself a shearman, art thou not?
CADE.
And Adam was a gardener.
BROTHER.
And what of that?
CADE.
Marry, this: Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March,
Married the Duke of Clarence’ daughter, did he not?
STAFFORD.
Ay, sir.
CADE.
By her he had two children at one birth.