And now, like Ajax Telamonius,

[♦] On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury.

I am far better born than is the king,

More like a king, more kingly in my thoughts:

30 But I must make fair weather yet a while,

Till Henry be more weak and I more strong.—

[♦] Buckingham, I prithee, pardon me,

That I have given no answer all this while;

My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.

35 The cause why I have brought this army hither