Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still:
Priests pray for enemies, but princes kill.

[Exit.

Alarums: Excursions. Enter King HENRY, Queen MARGARET, and others, flying.

Q. Mar. Away, my lord! you are slow: for shame, away!

K. Hen. Can we outrun the heavens? good Margaret, stay.

Q. Mar. What are you made of? you'll nor fight, nor fly:

Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence,
To give the enemy way; and to secure us
By what we can, which can no more but fly.

[Alarum afar off.

If you be ta'en, we then should see the bottom
Of all our fortunes; but if we haply scape,
(As well we may, if not through your neglect)
We shall to London get; where you are lov'd,
And where this breach, now in our fortunes made,
May readily be stopp'd.

Enter young CLIFFORD.

Y. Clif. But that my heart's on future mischief set, I would speak blasphemy ere bid you fly;

But fly you must: uncurable discomfit

Reigns in the hearts of all our present friends.1
Away, for your relief; and we will live

To see their day, and them our fortune give.
Away, my lord, away!

Exeunt.

SCENE III.-Fields near Saint Albans. Alarum: Retreat. Flourish; then enter YORK, RICHARD PLANTAGENET, WARWICK, and Soldiers, with Drum and Colours.

York. Old Salisbury, who can report of him?
That winter lion, who in rage forgets

Aged contusions and all bruise3 of time,
And, like a gallant in the bloom* of youth,
Repairs him with occasion? this happy day
Is not itself, nor have we won one foot,
If Salisbury be lost.

Rich.

My noble father, Three times to-day I holp him to his horse,

1 parts: in f. e.; altered by Steevens, to party. 3 brush in f. e. 4 brow in f. e.

2 Of: in f. e.