Enter three Souldiers.
1. Soul. Is not that the morning yonder?
2. Soul. I we see the beginning,
God knowes whether we shall see the end or no.
3. Soul. Well I thinke the king could wish himselfe45
Vp to the necke in the middle of the Thames,
And so I would he were, at all aduentures, and I with him.
Kin. Now masters god morrow, what cheare?[5520]
3. S. Ifaith small cheer some of vs is like to haue,
Ere this day ende.[5521]50
Kin. Why fear nothing man, the king is frolike.
2. S. I he may be, for he hath no cause as we.[5522]
Kin. Nay say not so, he is a man as we are.
The Violet smels to him as to vs:[5523]
Therefore if he see reasons, he feares as we do.55
2. Sol. But the king hath a heauy reckoning to make,
If his cause be not good: when all those soules
Whose bodies shall be slaughtered here,
Shall ioyne together at the latter day,
And say I dyed at such a place. Some swearing:60
Some their wiues rawly left:
Some leauing their children poore behind them.
Now if his cause be bad, I think it will be a greeuous matter to him.