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<TITLE THE VALIANT SCOT.>
BY I:W. GENT.
<SN ACTUS 1. (SCAENA 1.)>
<SN LANARK. THE COMMISSIONER'S COURT.!>
<SSD ENTER HALSERIGGE, THORNE, SELBY, AND SIR IEOFFREY WISEACRES.>
<Q THO.>
FELLOW COLLEAGUES, SINCE IT HATH PLEAS'D OUR KING,
RENOWNED EDWARD, OF HIS SPECIALL FAVOUR
TO SPHEARE US IN THIS HEIGHT OF EMINENCE,
AND MAKS US RULERS OVER SCOTLAND,
LETS SHEW OUR SELVES WORTHY THE DIGNITIES
CONFERRED UPON US.
<Q SEL.> THAT'S NOT BY LENITY,
FOR HOWSOERE THE ARMED HAND OF WAR
HA'S MADE THEM OURS, THEY ARE A NATION
HAUGHTY AND FULL OF SPLEEN, AND MUST BE MANAG'D
WITH STRAIGHTER REINS AND ROUGHER BITTS.
<Q THO.> AHLAS,
I FINDE THEM EASIE, TRACTABLE AND MILD,
AUTORITY MAY WITH A SLENDER TWINE
HOLD IN THE STRONGEST HEAD, THEN WHAT NEEDS TYRANNY,
USE REIN OR BITT, BY THIS ALL DOUBTS ARE CLEER'D,
'TIS ALWAYES BETTER TO BE LOV'D THEN FEAR'D?
AND BY YOUR LEAVE, SIR THOMAS,
WE HAVE GOOD REASON TO DEFEND OUR OWN.
<Q SEL.> . . .
