[♦] Were’t not that, by great preservation,
[♦] We live to tell it you, the subtle traitor
[♦] This day had plotted, in the council-house
To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester?
[40] May. What, had he so?
[♦] Glou. What, think you we are Turks or infidels?
[♦] Or that we would, against the form of law,
[♦] Proceed thus rashly to the villain’s death,
[♦] But that the extreme peril of the case,
45 The peace of England and our persons’ safety,