Edw. Now breathe we, lords: good fortune bids us pause,

And smooth the frowns of war with peaceful looks.

Some troops pursue the bloody-minded queen,

That led calm Henry, though he were a king,

35 As doth a sail, fill’d with a fretting gust,

Command an argosy to stem the waves.

But think you, lords, that Clifford fled with them?

War. No, ’tis impossible he should escape;

[♦] For, though before his face I speak the words,

40 Your brother Richard mark’d him for the grave: