They know that Glendower can aid with ten thousand Welshmen, and that Mortimer can raise three or four thousand men from his vassals.

They should know what help they can count on from Scotland; and doubtless, during the last six months, have made themselves acquainted with the general feeling respecting the king.

It is upon them that the risk chiefly falls.

We knights and men-at-arms may fall in the field of battle; but that is a risk that we know we have to face, when we take to the calling of arms.

If our cause is lost, and we escape from the battlefield, we have but to depart to our holds or our villages, and we shall hear nought more of the affair; while our lords, if taken, would lose their heads.