"Have I not suffered enough by keeping a force on foot, by having my lands harried and my vassals slain, in order to support Henry's claims to the kingdom of Wales, only to be suspected of treachery?
Had I intended to join Glendower, I should have done so a year before; and with my force and his, we could have kept Henry at bay.

Why should I have kept up the pretext of loyalty, when there was nought to have prevented my joining Glendower?
Why should I have fought him, at the cost of the lives of some twelve hundred of my men, when I could have marched them into his camp, as friends?
Why should I suffer nine months of close imprisonment, at the hands of an ally?
"Henry lied, and knew that he lied, when he brought such a charge against me.

He wished to be able to work his will on the young earl, and maybe to murder him as he murdered Richard, without there being one powerful enough to lift his voice to condemn the murder.

All is at an end between us, and henceforth I am his open enemy, as he is mine; and would be heart and soul with the Percys in the overthrow of Henry, even if my nephew were not concerned, and did the earl purpose, himself, to grasp the crown." "Glendower is below, Sir Edmund, and will himself speak to you; but he thought that it were best that I should first open the matter to you." A quarter of an hour later the keeper of the hold came up, and said that the prince bade Sir Edmund to descend and speak with him.

As they entered the room where Glendower was waiting, the latter glanced at Oswald, inquiringly.
"The matter is settled," the latter said.