_King._ Why, yet he doth deny his prisoners,[2135] But with proviso and exception, That we at our own charge shall ransom straight His brother-in-law, the foolish Mortimer; 80 Who, on my soul, hath wilfully betray'd[2136] The lives of those that he did lead to fight Against that great magician, damn'd Glendower,[2137] Whose daughter, as we hear, the Earl of March[2138] Hath lately married. Shall our coffers, then, 85 Be emptied to redeem a traitor home? Shall we buy treason? and indent with fears,[2139] When they have lost and forfeited themselves? No, on the barren mountains let him starve;[2140] For I shall never hold that man my friend 90 Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny cost To ransom home revolted Mortimer. _Hot._ Revolted Mortimer! He never did fall off, my sovereign liege,[2141] But by the chance of war: to prove that true[2141][2142] 95 Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds,[2143] Those mouthed wounds, which valiantly he took, When on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank,[2144] In single opposition, hand to hand, He did confound the best part of an hour 100 In changing hardiment with great Glendower: Three times they breathed and three times did they drink, Upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood; Who then, affrighted with their bloody looks, Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds, 105 And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank[2145] Bloodstained with these valiant combatants. Never did base and rotten policy[2146] Colour her working with such deadly wounds; Nor never could the noble Mortimer[2147] 110 Receive so many, and all willingly: Then let not him be slander'd with revolt.[2148] _King._ Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him;[2149] He never did encounter with Glendower: I tell thee,[2150] 115 He durst as well have met the devil alone As Owen Glendower for an enemy. Art thou not ashamed? But, sirrah, henceforth[2151] Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer: Send me your prisoners with the speediest means, 120 Or you shall hear in such a kind from me As will displease you. My Lord Northumberland,[2152] We license your departure with your son. Send us your prisoners, or you will hear of it. [_Exeunt King Henry, Blunt, and train._[2153] _Hot._ An if the devil come and roar for them,[2154] 125 I will not send them: I will after straight And tell him so; for I will ease my heart, Albeit I make a hazard of my head.[2155] _North._ What, drunk with choler? stay and pause awhile: Here comes your uncle.