GLOUCESTER

Let me beseech your grace not to do so:

His fault is much, and the good king his master

Will cheque him for ‘t: your purposed low correction

Is such as basest and contemned’st wretches

For pilferings and most common trespasses

Are punish’d with: the king must take it ill,

That he’s so slightly valued in his messenger,

Should have him thus restrain’d.