John a Kent and John a Cumber Author:Anthony Munday Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: JOHN A KENT AND JOHN A CUMBEK. ACTUS I. SCENA L Enter Sir Griffin Mekiddock, of South Wales, and Jeffrey Powesse. S. Griffin. Powesse, in vayne perswads... more »te thou patience; In vayne thou dreamste of lykely remedies; In vayne thou telst of this or that conceit; Winde breathed woordes are vayner than the winde: Only our weapons must effect our weale. Powesse. As hitherto, my lord, I have entreated, So for a whyle, I pray ye, be advisde. 8. Griffin. Advisde ? Why, what advise can Powesse yeeld ? Is not Sidanen, with the Earle's consent And Prince Llwellen's graunt, affyed to Moorton ? Powesse. Yea; so Pembrooke hathe their graunt for Marian. But S. Griffin. But what? Even while we thus stand wasting idle woordes, Pembrook and Moorton shall possesse our looves. Our looves exclaime against our cowardise; Our cowardise, to our eternall shame, In England, Wales, and Scotland, shall be sung By every jygging mate our foes among. Powesse. Nor English, Welshe, nor Scottish, shall reproove Lord Jeffrey Powesse with base cowardise. As much, Prince Griffin, as the proudest dare, Dares Powesse for his Marian's libertie; Yet not with rashnes, or unbrideled heat. Discretion must be usde; the cause is great. 8. Griffin. Great cause, indeed, when fayre Sidanen's Dimde with the sourse of her continuall teares, Mixing those teares amongst the mournefull ynck That writ the cause of her lament and mine, Seemes in this paper weeping to intreat; And then no mervayle, though the cause be great. [He shewes a letter. Powesse. But greater cause, our countreyes cause I meane, If we should manage armes, as you still urge, And so by force from noble Chester's Courte, Agaynst his. will, fetche our well-willing looves, We may be held as trayt...« less