30 The Duke of Somerset, whom he terms a traitor.
King. Thus stands my state, ’twixt Cade and York distress’d;
Like to a ship that, having ’scaped a tempest
[♦] Is straightway calm’d and boarded with a pirate:
[♦] But now is Cade driven back, his men dispersed;
35 And now is York in arms to second him.
[♦] I pray thee, Buckingham, go and meet him,
And ask him what’s the reason of these arms.
Tell him I’ll send Duke Edmund to the Tower;
And, Somerset, we will commit thee hither,