Scene + 

IV + 

Near Harwich. + 

Enter Queen Isabella, Prince Edward, Kent, the Younger Mortimer, and Sir John of Hainault. + 

Queen Isabella + 

Now, lords, our loving friends and countrymen, + 

Welcome to England all, with prosperous winds! + 

Our kindest friends in Belgia have we left, + 

To cope with friends at home; a heavy case + 

When force to force is knit, and sword and glaive + 

In civil broils make kin and countrymen + 

Slaughter themselves in others, and their sides + 

With their own weapons gored! But what’s the help? + 

Misgoverned kings are cause of all this wreck; + 

And, Edward, thou art one among them all, + 

Whose looseness hath betrayed thy land to spoil, + 

Who made the channel overflow with blood + 

Of thine own people: patron shouldst thou be; + 

But thou⁠— + 

Younger Mortimer + 

Nay, madam, if you be a warrior, + 

You must not grow so passionate in speeches.⁠— + 

Lords, sith that we are, by sufferance of heaven, + 

Arrived and armed in this prince’s right, + 

Here for our country’s cause swear we to him + 

All homage, fealty, and forwardness; + 

And for the open wrongs and injuries + 

Edward hath done to us, his queen, and land, + 

We come in arms to wreck it with the sword; + 

That England’s queen in peace may repossess + 

Her dignities and honours; and withal + 

We may remove these flatterers from the king + 

That havoc England’s wealth and treasury. + 

Sir John + 

Sound trumpets, my lord, and forward let us march. + 

Edward will think we come to flatter him. + 

Kent + 

I would he never had been flattered more! + 

Exeunt. + 