via

Via les eaux et terre .

Why , therefore Warwick came to seek you out ,
And therefore comes my brother Montague .
Attend me , lords : the proud insulting queen ,
With Clifford and the haught Northumberland
And of their feather many more proud birds ,
Have wrought the easy-melting king like wax .
He swore consent to your succession ,
His oath enrollèd in the Parliament .
And now to London all the crew are gone
To frustrate both his oath and what beside
May make against the house of Lancaster .
Their power , I think , is thirty thousand strong .
Now , if the help of Norfolk and myself ,
With all the friends that thou , brave Earl of March ,
Amongst the loving Welshmen canst procure ,
Will but amount to five and twenty thousand ,
Why , via , to London will we march ,
And once again bestride our foaming steeds ,
And once again cry Charge ! upon our foes ,
But never once again turn back and fly .

Most barbarous intimation ! Yet a kind of
insinuation , as it were , in via , in way , of explication ;
facere , as it were , replication , or rather , ostentare , to
show , as it were , his inclination , after his undressed ,
unpolished , uneducated , unpruned , untrained , or
rather unlettered , or ratherest , unconfirmed fashion ,
to insert again my haud credo for a deer .

Via , goodman Dull . Thou hast spoken no
word all this while .

Under the cool shade of a sycamore ,
I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour .
When , lo , to interrupt my purposed rest ,
Toward that shade I might behold addressed
The King and his companions . Warily
I stole into a neighbor thicket by ,
And overheard what you shall overhear :
That , by and by , disguised , they will be here .
Their herald is a pretty knavish page
That well by heart hath conned his embassage .
Action and accent did they teach him there :
Thus must thou speak , and thus thy body bear .
And ever and anon they made a doubt
Presence majestical would put him out ;
For , quoth the King , an angel shalt thou see ;
Yet fear not thou , but speak audaciously .
The boy replied An angel is not evil .
I should have feared her had she been a devil .
With that , all laughed and clapped him on the
shoulder ,
Making the bold wag by their praises bolder .
One rubbed his elbow thus , and fleered , and swore
A better speech was never spoke before .
Another with his finger and his thumb ,
Cried Via ! We will do ’t , come what will come .
The third he capered and cried All goes well !
The fourth turned on the toe , and down he fell .
With that , they all did tumble on the ground
With such a zealous laughter so profound
That in this spleen ridiculous appears ,
To check their folly , passion’s solemn tears .

Call him in . Such Brooks are welcome to
me that o’erflows such liquor .
Ah ha , Mistress Ford and Mistress Page , have I encompassed
you ? Go to . Via !