Relays of horses are ready, night and day, to bear you to the coast; while seeking your restoration, I have never neglected the facilities for flight.

Pause not, O gracious lady; let not your son say, 'My mother's passion has lost me the hope of my grandsire's crown.'" "My boy; my princely boy, my Edward!" exclaimed Margaret, bursting into tears, all the warrior-queen merged in the remembrance of the fond mother.

"Ah, faithful friend! he is so gallant and so beautiful! Oh, he shall reward thee well hereafter!" "May he live to crush these barons, and raise this people!" said the demagogue of Redesdale.

"But now, save thyself!" "But what! is it not possible yet to strike the blow?
Rather let us spur to the north; rather let us hasten the hour of action, and raise the Red Rose through the length and breadth of England!" "Ah, lady, if without warrant from your lord; if without foreign subsidies; if without having yet ripened the time; if without gold, without arms, and without one great baron on our side, we forestall a rising, all that we have gained is lost; and instead of war, you can scarcely provoke a riot.

But for this accursed alliance of Edward's daughter with the brother of icy-hearted Louis, our triumph had been secure.