Hot. And I can teach thee, coz, to shame the devil[2627]
By telling truth: tell truth, and shame the devil.[2628]
If thou have power to raise him, bring him hither,60
And I 'll be sworn I have power to shame him hence.
O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil!
Mort. Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.[2629]
Glend. Three times hath Henry Bolingbroke made head
Against my power; thrice from the banks of Wye[2630]65
And sandy-bottom'd Severn have I sent him[2631][2632]
Bootless home and weather-beaten back.[2632][2633]
Hot. Home without boots, and in foul weather too![2634]
How 'scapes he agues, in the devil's name?[2635]
Glend. Come, here's the map: shall we divide our right[2636]70
According to our threefold order ta'en?
Mort. The archdeacon hath divided it[2637]
Into three limits very equally:
England, from Trent and Severn hitherto,
By south and east is to my part assign'd:75
All westward, Wales beyond the Severn shore.
And all the fertile land within that bound.
To Owen Glendower: and, dear coz, to you[2638]
The remnant northward, lying off from Trent.
And our indentures tripartite are drawn;[2639]80
Which being sealed interchangeably,
A business that this night may execute,
To-morrow, cousin Percy, you and I[2640]
And my good Lord of Worcester will set forth
To meet your father and the Scottish power,85
As is appointed us, at Shrewsbury.
My father Glendower is not ready yet,
Nor shall we need his help these fourteen days.
Within that space you may have drawn together[2641]
Your tenants, friends, and neighbouring gentlemen.90
Glend. A shorter time shall send me to you, lords:
And in my conduct shall your ladies come;
From whom you now must steal and take no leave,
For there will be a world of water shed[2642]
Upon the parting of your wives and you.95
Hot. Methinks my moiety, north from Burton here,[2643]
In quantity equals not one of yours:
See how this river comes me cranking in,[2644]
And cuts me from the best of all my land
A huge half-moon, a monstrous cantle out.[2645]100
I'll have the current in this place damm'd up;[2646]
And here the smug and silver Trent shall run
In a new channel, fair and evenly;
It shall not wind with such a deep indent,
To rob me of so rich a bottom here.105
Glend. Not wind? it shall, it must; you see it doth.
Mort. Yea, but[2647][2648]
Mark how he bears his course, and runs me up[2647][2648]
With like advantage on the other side;[2647]
Gelding the opposed continent as much[2647]110
As on the other side it takes from you.[2647]