26742372I had forestald this deere and deep rebuke,

26752373Ere you with griefe had spoke, and I had heard

26762374The course of it so far: there is your crowne:

26772375And he that weares the crowne immortally,

26782376Long gard it yours: if I affect it more,

26792377Then as your honour, and as your renowne,

26802378Let me no more from this obedience rise,

26812379Which my most inward true and duteous spirit,

26822380Teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending,

26832381God witnesse with me. When I here came in,

26842382And found no course of breath within your maiesty,

26852383How cold it strooke my heart! if I do faine,

26862384O let me in my present wildnesse die,

26872385And neuer liue to shew th'incredulous world,

26882386The noble change that I haue purposed.

26892387Comming to looke on you, thinking you dead,

26902388And dead almost, my liege, to thinke you were,

26912389I spake vnto this crowne as hauing sence,

26922390And thus vpbraided it: the care on thee depending,

26932391Hath fed vpon the body of my father,

26942392Therefore thou best of gold, art worse then gold,

26952393Other lesse fine, in karrat more precious,

26962394Preseruing life in medcine potable:

26972395But thou, most fine, most honourd, most renown'd,

26982396Hast eate thy bearer vp: thus my most royall liege,

27002397Accusing it, I put it on my head,

27012398To trie with it as with an enemy,

27022399That had before my face murdered my father,

27032400The quarrell of a true inheritour,

27042401But if it did infect my bloud with ioy,

27052402Or swell my thoughts to any straine of pride,

27062403If any rebel or vaine spirit of mine,

27072404Did with the least affection of a welcome,

27082405Giue entertainement to the might of it,

27092406Let God for euer keep it from my head,