[♦] Henceforth we banish thee, on pain of death. [Exit Fastolfe.

[♦] And now, my lord protector, view the letter

Sent from our uncle Duke of Burgundy.

50 Glou. What means his grace, that he hath changed his style?

[♦] No more but, plain and bluntly, ‘To the king!’

Hath he forgot he is his sovereign?

Or doth this churlish superscription

[♦] Pretend some alteration in good will?

[55] What’s here? [Reads] ‘I have, upon especial cause,

[♦] Moved with compassion of my country’s wreck,