The second part of
14661301My Lord Northumberland wil
soone be coold.
14671302King O God that one might reade the booke of fate,
14681303And
see the reuolution of the times,
14691304Make mountaines leuell, and the continent
14701305Weary of
solide
firmene
sse melt it
selfe
14711306Into the
sea, and other times to
see,
14721307The beachie girdle of the ocean,
14731308Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes,
14741309And changes
fill the cup of alteration,
14751310With diuers liquors! O if this were
seene,
1475.11311The happie
st youth viewing his progre
sse through,
1475.21312What perills pa
st, what cro
sses to en
sue?
1475.31313Would
shut the booke and
sit him downe and die:
1314Tis not ten yeeres gone,
14761315Since Richard and Northumberland great friends,
14771316Did fea
st togither, and in two yeare after,
14781317Were they at warres: it is but eight yeares
since,
14791318This Percie was the man neere
st my
soule,
14801319Who like a brother toyld in my a
ffaires;
14811320And laied his loue and life vnder my foote,
14821321Yea for my
sake, euen to the eyes of Richard,
14831322Gaue him defyance: but which of you was by?
14841323You cou
sen Neuel, (as I may remember)
14851324When Richard with his eye-brimme full of teares,
14861325Then checkt and rated by Northumberland,
14871326Did
speake the
se wordes now proou'd a prophecie:
14881327Northumberland, thou ladder by the which
14891328My cou
sen Bolingbrooke a
scends my throne,
14901329(Though then (God knowes) I had no
such intent,
14911330But that nece
ssitie
so bowed the
state,
14921331That I and greatne
sse were compeld to ki
sse.)
14931332The time
shall come, thus did he follow it,
14941333The time wil come, that foule
sin gathering head,
14951334Shall breake into corruption:
so went on,
14961335Fortelling this
same times condition,
And