[2860] [Exit Bardolph.] Dyce. _Go,_] _go,--_ Johnson, om. Capell. _Peto_] _Poins_ Steevens (Johnson conj.). See note (XVI). _to horse, to horse_] Q₁ Q₂. The rest _to horse_. [2861] _yet_] om. Capell. See note (XVII). [Exit Peto.] Edd. Exit Pointz. Dyce. [2862] _afternoon_] _afternoon precisely_ Keightley conj. [2863] _There ... furniture._] As in Qq Ff. As prose by Pope. [2864] _we or they_] Q₁ Q₂ Q₃. The rest _they or we_. [Exit.] Dyce. Exeunt Prince, Peto, and Bar. Capell. [2865] _Rare ... come_]As two lines in Ff. [2866] [Exit.] Capell. Exeunt. Qq. Exeunt omnes. Ff. ACT IV. SCENE I. _The Rebel Camp near Shrewsbury._ _Enter_ HOTSPUR, WORCESTER, _and_ DOUGLAS.[2867] _Hot._ Well said, my noble Scot: if speaking truth[2868] In this fine age were not thought flattery,[2869] Such attribution should the Douglas have, As not a soldier of this season's stamp Should go so general current through the world. 5 By God, I cannot flatter; I do defy[2870] The tongues of soothers; but a braver place[2871] In my heart's love hath no man than yourself: Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord. _Doug._ Thou art the king of honour:[2872] 10 No man so potent breathes upon the ground[2873] But I will beard him.[2873] _Hot._ Do so, and 'tis well.[2874][2875] _Enter a_ Messenger _with letters_.[2875][2876] What letters hast thou there?--I can but thank you.[2875][2877] _Mess._ These letters come from your father.[2878] _Hot._ Letters from him! why comes he not himself?[2879] 15 _Mess._ He cannot come, my lord; he is grievous sick.[2879][2880] _Hot._ 'Zounds! how has he the leisure to be sick[2881] In such a justling time? Who leads his power? Under whose government come they along? _Mess._ His letters bear his mind, not I, my lord.[2882] 20 _Wor._ I prithee, tell me, doth he keep his bed? _Mess._ He did, my lord, four days ere I set forth; And at the time of my departure thence He was much fear'd by his physicians.[2883] _Wor._ I would the state of time had first been whole[2884] 25 Ere he by sickness had been visited: His health was never better worth than now.