[♦] Glou. Catesby, o’erlook the walls.

[♦] Buck. Lord mayor, the reason we have sent—

[♦] Glou. Look back, defend thee, here are enemies.

[20] Buck. God and our innocency defend and guard us!

[♦] Glou. Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliff and Lovel.

Enter LOVEL and RATCLIFF, with HASTINGS’ head.

[♦] Lov. Here is the head of that ignoble traitor,

The dangerous and unsuspected Hastings.

Glou. So dear I loved the man, that I must weep.

[25] I took him for the plainest harmless creature