Edward the third.
787Will haue it
so, before I will con
sent,
788To be an a
ctor in his gracele
sse lu
st,
789Wa: Why now thou
speak
st as I would haue thee
speake,
790And marke how I vn
saie my words againe,
791An honorable graue is more e
steemd,
792Then the polluted clo
set of a king,
793The greater man, the greater is the thing,
794Be it good or bad that he
shall vndertake,
795An vnreputed mote,
flying in the Sunne,
796Pre
sents a
greater
sub
staunce then it is:
797The fre
she
st summers day doth
soone
st taint,
798The lothed carrion that it
seemes to ki
sse:
799Deepe are the blowes made with a mightie Axe,
800That
sinne doth ten times agreuate it
selfe,
801That is committed in a holie place,
802An euill deed done by authoritie,
803Is
sin and
subbornation: Decke an Ape
804In ti
ssue, and the beautie of the robe,
805Adds but the greater
scorne vnto the bea
st:
806A
spatious
field of rea
sons could I vrge,
807Betweene his gloomie daughter and thy
shame,
808That poy
son
shewes wor
st in a golden cup,
809Darke night
seemes darker by the lightning
fla
sh,
810Lillies that fe
ster,
smel far wor
se then weeds,
811And euery glory that inclynes to
sin,
812The
shame is treble, by the oppo
site,
813So leaue I with my ble
ssing in thy bo
some,
814Which then conuert to a mo
st heauie cur
se,
815When thou conuerte
st from honors golden name,
816To the blacke fa
ction of bed blotting,
shame.
817Coun: Ils follow thee, and when my minde turnes
so,
818My body
sinke, my
soule in endles woo.
Exeunt.
819Enter at one doore Derby from Eraunce, At an other doore, 821Der. Thrice noble
Audley, well incountred heere,
822How is it with our
soueraigne and his peeres?
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