23972120Then all thy brothers, cherrish it my boy:

23982121And noble offices thou maist effect

23992122Of mediation after I am dead,

24002123Betweene his greatnesse and thy other brethren:

24012124Therefore omit him not, blunt not his loue,

24022125Nor loose the good aduantage of his grace,

24032126By seeming cold, or carelesse of his will,

24042127For he is gracious if he be obseru'de,

24052128He hath a teare for pittie, and a hand,

24062129Open as day for meeting charitie,

24072130Yet notwithstanding being incenst, he is flint,

24082131As humorous as winter, and as sodaine

24092132As flawes congealed in the spring of day:

24102133His temper therefore must be well obseru'd,

24112134Chide him for faults, and do it reuerently,

24122135When you perceiue his bloud inclind to mirth:

24132136But being moody, giue him time and scope,

24142137Till that his passions, like a whale on ground

24152138Confound themselues with working, learne this Thomas,

24162139And thou shalt proue a shelter to thy friends,

24172140A hoope of gold to binde thy brothers in,

24182141That the vnited vessell of their bloud,

24192142(Mingled with venome of suggestion,

24202143As force perforce, the age will powre it in,)

24212144Shall neuer leake, though it doe worke as strong,

24222145As Aconitum, or rash gunpowder.

24232146Cla. I shall obserue him with all care and loue.

24242147King Why art thou not at Winsore with him Thomas?

24262148Tho. He is not there to day, he dines in London.

24272149King And how accompanied?

24302150Tho. With Poines, and other his continuall followers.

24322151King Most subiect is the fattest soyle to weeds,

24332152And he, the noble image of my youth,

24342153Is ouerspread with them, therefore my griefe

24352154Stretches it selfe beyond the howre of death:

24362155The bloud weepes from my heart when I do shape,

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