_Green._ Ah madam, 'tis too true: and that is worse,[1136] The Lord Northumberland, his son young Henry Percy,[1137] The Lords of Ross, Beaumond, and Willoughby, With all their powerful friends, are fled to him. 55 _Bushy._ Why have you not proclaim'd Northumberland And all the rest revolted faction traitors?[1138] _Green._ We have: whereupon the Earl of Worcester[1139] Hath broke his staff, resign'd his stewardship,[1140] And all the household servants fled with him[1141] 60 To Bolingbroke.[1141][1142] _Queen._ So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe,[1143] And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir: Now hath my soul brought forth her prodigy, And I, a gasping new-deliver'd mother,[1144] 65 Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd. _Bushy._ Despair not, madam. _Queen._ Who shall hinder me? I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope: he is a flatterer,[1145] A parasite, a keeper back of death, 70 Who gently would dissolve the bands of life, Which false hope lingers in extremity. _Enter_ YORK.[1146] _Green._ Here comes the Duke of York.[1147] _Queen._ With signs of war about his aged neck; O, full of careful business are his looks![1148] 75 Uncle, for God's sake, speak comfortable words.[1149] _York._ Should I do so, I should belie my thoughts:[1150] Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth, Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.[1151] Your husband, he is gone to save far off, 80 Whilst others come to make him lose at home:[1152] Here am I left to underprop his land, Who, weak with age, cannot support myself: Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made;[1153] Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd him.[1154] 85 _Enter a_ Servant.[1155] _Serv._ My lord, your son was gone before I came.[1156] _York._ He was? Why, so! go all which way it will! The nobles they are fled, the commons they are cold,[1157] And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side. Sirrah, get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloucester;[1158] 90 Bid her send me presently a thousand pound:[1159] Hold, take my ring.[1160] _Serv._ My lord, I had forgot to tell your lordship,[1156][1161] To-day, as I came by, I called there;[1160][1162][1163] But I shall grieve you to report the rest.[1163] 95 _York._ What is't, knave?[1164] _Serv._ An hour before I came, the duchess died.[1156]