Let him shun castles;

Safer shall he be upon the sandy plains

Than where castles mounted stand.’

[♦] Come, come, my lords;

[70] These oracles are hardly attain’d,

And hardly understood.

The king is now in progress towards Saint Alban’s,

With him the husband of this lovely lady:

[♦] Thither go these news, as fast as horse can carry them:

75 A sorry breakfast for my lord protector.