n._ Vane, go find the King!
Tell the King, Vane, the People follow Pym
To brave us at Whitehall!

_SAVILE enters._

_Savile._ Not to Whitehall--
'Tis to the Lords they go: they seek redress
On Strafford from his peers--the legal way,
They call it.

_Queen._ (Wait, Vane!)

_Savile._ But the adage gives
Long life to threatened men. Strafford can save
Himself so readily: at York, remember,
In his own country: what has he to fear?
The Commons only mean to frighten him
From leaving York. Surely, he will not come.

_Queen._ Lucy, he will not come!

_Lady Carlisle._ Once more, the King
Has sent for Strafford. He will come.

_Vane._ Oh doubtless!
And bring destruction with him: that's his way.
What but his coming spoilt all Conway's plan?
The King must take his counsel, choose his friends,
Be wholly ruled by him! What's the result?
The North that was to rise, Ireland to help,--
What came of it? In my poor mind, a fright
Is no prodigious punishment.

_Lady Carlisle._ A fright?
Pym will fail worse than Strafford if he thinks
To frighten him. [_To the QUEEN._] You will not save him then?

_Savile._ When something like a charge is made, the King
Will best know how to save him: and t'is clear,
While Strafford suffers nothing by the matter,
The King may reap advantage: this in question,
No dinning you with ship-money complaints!

_Queen_ [_to +Lady+ CARLISLE_]. If we dissolve them, who will pay
the army?
Protect us from the insolent Scots?

_Lady Carlisle._ In truth,
I know not, madam. Strafford's fate concerns
Me little: you desired to learn what course
Would save him: I obey you.

_Vane._ Notice, too,
There can't be fairer ground for taking full
Revenge--(Strafford's revengeful)--than he'll have
Against his old friend Pym.

_Queen._ Why, he shall claim
Vengeance on Pym!

_Vane._ And Strafford, who is he
To 'scape unscathed amid the accidents
That harass all beside? I, for my part,
Should look for something of discomfiture
Had the King trusted me so thoroughly
And been so paid for it.

_Holland._ He'll keep at York:
All will blow over: he'll return no worse,
Humbled a little, thankful for a place