[♦] And yet the king not privy to my drift,
[♦] Nor any of the house of Lancaster?
Enter a Messenger.
But, stay: what news? Why comest thou in such post?
[♦] Gabr. The queen with all the northern earls and lords
[50] Intend here to besiege you in your castle:
She is hard by with twenty thousand men;
And therefore fortify your hold, my lord.
[♦] York. Ay, with my sword. What! think’st thou that we fear them?
Edward and Richard, you shall stay with me;