Enter GLOUCESTER, LORD HASTINGS, and SIR WILLIAM STANLEY.

[♦] Glou. Now, my Lord Hastings and Sir William Stanley,

Leave off to wonder why I drew you hither,

Into this chiefest thicket of the park.

[♦] Thus stands the case: you know our king, my brother,

[5] Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands

He hath good usage and great liberty,

And, often but attended with weak guard,

[♦] Comes hunting this way to disport himself.

I have advertised him by secret means