More than I have said, loving countrymen,

The leisure and enforcement of the time

[♦] Forbids to dwell upon: yet remember this,

240 God and our good cause fight upon our side;

The prayers of holy saints and wronged souls,

[♦] Like high-rear’d bulwarks, stand before our faces.

[♦] Richard except, those whom we fight against

Had rather have us win than him they follow:

245 For what is he they follow? truly, gentlemen,

A bloody tyrant and a homicide;