`` Are ye Lancaster or York ? '' he asked , at length . `` I shame to say it , '' answered Dick , `` I can scarce clearly answer . But so much I think is certain : since I serve with Ellis Duckworth , I serve the house of York . Well , if that be so , I declare for York . '' `` It is well , '' returned the other ; `` it is exceeding well . For , truly , had ye said Lancaster , I wot not for the world what I had done . But sith ye are for York , follow me . I came hither but to watch these lords at Shoreby , while mine excellent young lord , Richard of Gloucester , -LCB- 1 -RCB- prepareth a sufficient force to fall upon and scatter them . I have made me notes of their strength , what watch they keep , and how they lie ; and these I was to deliver to my young lord on Sunday , an hour before noon , at St. Bride 's Cross beside the forest . This tryst I am not like to keep , but I pray you , of courtesy , to keep it in my stead ; and see that not pleasure , nor pain , tempest , wound , nor pestilence withhold you from the hour and place , for the welfare of England lieth upon this cast . '' `` I do soberly take this up on me , '' said Dick . `` In so far as in me lieth , your purpose shall be done . '' `` It is good , '' said the wounded man . `` My lord duke shall order you farther , and if ye obey him with spirit and good will , then is your fortune made . Give me the lamp a little nearer to mine eyes , till that I write these words for you . '' He wrote a note `` to his worshipful kinsman , Sir John Hamley ; '' and then a second , which he-left without external superscripture . `` This is for the duke , '' he said . `` The word is ` England and Edward , ' and the counter , ` England and York . ' '' `` And Joanna , my lord ? ''
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