_Holl._ Pym Is raging like a fire. The whole House means To follow him together to Whitehall And force the King to give up Strafford. _Queen._ Strafford? _Holl._ If they content themselves with Strafford! Laud Is talked of, Cottington and Windebank too. Pym has not left out one of them--I would You heard Pym raging! _Queen._ Vane, go find the King! Tell the King, Vane, the People follow Pym To brave us at Whitehall! (SAVILE _enters._) _Sav._ Not to Whitehall-- 'T is to the Lords they go: they seek redress On Strafford from his peers--the legal way, They call it. _Queen._ (Wait, Vane!) _Sav._ But the adage gives Long life to threatened men. Strafford can save Himself so readily: at York, remember, In his own county: what has he to fear? The Commons only mean to frighten him From leaving York. Surely, he will not come. _Queen._ Lucy, he will not come! _Lady Car._ Once more, the King Has sent for Strafford. He will come. _Vane._ Oh doubtless! And bring destruction with him: that 's his way. What but his coming spoilt all Conway's plan? The King must take his counsel, choose his friends, Be wholly ruled by him! What 's the result? The North that was to rise, Ireland to help,-- What came of it? In my poor mind, a fright Is no prodigious punishment. _Lady Car._ A fright? Pym will fail worse than Strafford if he thinks To frighten him. [_To the_ QUEEN.] You will not save him then? _Sav._ When something like a charge is made, the King Will best know how to save him: and 't is clear, While Strafford suffers nothing by the matter, The King may reap advantage: this in question, No dinning you with ship-money complaints! _Queen._ [_To_ Lady CARLISLE.] If we dissolve them, who will pay the army? Protect us from the insolent Scots? _Lady Car._ In truth, I know not, madam. Strafford's fate concerns Me little: you desired to learn what course Would save him: I obey you. _Vane._ Notice, too, There can't be fairer ground for taking full Revenge--(Strafford 's revengeful)--than he 'll have Against his old friend Pym. _Queen._ Why, he shall claim Vengeance on Pym! _Vane._ And Strafford, who is he To 'scape unscathed amid the accidents That harass all beside? I, for my part, Should look for something of discomfiture Had the King trusted me so thoroughly And been so paid for it.