supplication?

King. I’ll send some holy bishop to entreat;

10 For God forbid so many simple souls

Should perish by the sword! And I myself,

[♦] Rather than bloody war shall cut them short,

Will parley with Jack Cade their general:

But stay, I’ll read it over once again.

15 Queen. Ah, barbarous villains! hath this lovely face

Ruled, like a wandering planet, over me,

And could it not enforce them to relent,