27102407And make me as the poorest vassaile is,

27112408That doth with aw and terror kneele to it.

27132409King God put in thy mind to take it hence,

27142410That thou mightst win the more thy fathers loue,

27152411Pleading so wisely in excuse of it:

27162412Come hither Harry, sit thou by my bed,

27172413And heare (I thinke) the very latest counsaile

27182414That euer I shal breathe. God knowes (my sonne)

27192415By what by-paths, and indirect crookt waies,

27202416I met this crowne, and I my selfe know well,

27212417How troublesome it sate vpon my head:

27222418To thee it shall descend with better quiet,

27232419Better opinion, better confirmation,

27242420For al the soyle of the atchieuement goes,

27252421With me into the earth, it seemd in me,

27262422But as an honor snatcht with boistrous hand,

27272423And I had many liuing to vpbraide

27282424My gaine of it, by their assistances,

27292425Which daily grew to quarrell and to bloudshed,

27302426Wounding supposed peace: all these bold feares

27322427Thou seest with perill I haue answerd:

27332428For all my raigne hath beene but as a Scene,

27342429Acting that argument: and now my death

27352430Changes the mood, for what in me was purchast,

27362431Fals vpon thee in a more fairer sort.

27372432So thou the garland wearst successiuely,

27382433Yet though thou standst more sure then I could do,

27392434Thou art not firme enough, since griefes are greene,

27402435And all thy friends which thou must make thy friends,

27412436Haue but their stings and teeth newly tane out:

27422437By whose fell working I was first aduaunst,

27432438And by whose power I well might lodge a feare

27442439To be againe displacde: which to auoyde,

27452440I cut them off, and had a purpose, now

27462441To leade out manie to the Holy Land,

27472442Lest rest, and lying stil, might make them looke,

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