At any rate, I am glad to journey thither; for it seems, at present, as if there, only, is there a chance of giving and taking hard knocks.

How is it that you do not take a party of men-at-arms, as you did last time ?" "Mortimer has plenty of men, without them, and the handful that Percy can spare would be of little use.

I am going principally because Hotspur is anxious to be kept well informed of what happens in the west, for he feels sure that, if Glendower's power increases, it will be needful to send a strong English army there.

The Scots will make a great invasion, and it will behove all the northern counties, and lords, to hold themselves in readiness." They travelled fast and, in five days after leaving Alnwick, arrived at Ludlow.
"Welcome back again, Master Oswald!" Sir Edmund said, when he arrived.
"I thought that maybe Sir Henry Percy would send you hither.

Matters here are becoming serious, and 'tis said that there have been Scotch emissaries with Glendower, though for the truth of this I cannot answer; but Percy will certainly wish to know, well, what passes in the west; and I am but a poor hand with the pen, and moreover, too much busied to write often.