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,