Henry the fourth.
27102407And make me as the poore
st va
ssaile is,
27112408That doth with aw and terror kneele to it.
27132409King God put in thy mind to take it hence,
27142410That thou might
st win the more thy fathers loue,
27152411Pleading
so wi
sely in excu
se of it:
27162412Come hither Harry,
sit thou by my bed,
27172413And heare (I thinke) the very late
st coun
saile
27182414That euer I
shal breathe. God knowes (my
sonne)
27192415By what by-paths, and indire
ct crookt waies,
27202416I met this crowne, and I my
selfe know well,
27212417How trouble
some it
sate vpon my head:
27222418To thee it
shall de
scend with better quiet,
27232419Better opinion, better con
firmation,
27242420For al the
soyle of the atchieuement goes,
27252421With me into the earth, it
seemd in me,
27262422But as an honor
snatcht with boi
strous hand,
27272423And I had many liuing to vpbraide
27282424My gaine of it, by their a
ssistances,
27292425Which daily grew to quarrell and to bloud
shed,
27302426Wounding
suppo
sed peace: all the
se bold feares
27322427Thou
see
st with perill I haue an
swerd:
27332428For all my raigne hath beene but as a Scene,
27342429A
cting that argument: and now my death
27352430Changes the mood, for what in me was purcha
st,
27362431Fals vpon thee in a more fairer
sort.
27372432So thou the garland wear
st succe
ssiuely,
27382433Yet though thou
stand
st more
sure then I could do,
27392434Thou art not
firme enough,
since griefes are greene,
27402435And all thy friends which thou mu
st make thy friends,
27412436Haue but their
stings and teeth newly tane out:
27422437By who
se fell working I was
fir
st aduaun
st,
27432438And by who
se power I well might lodge a feare
27442439To be againe di
splacde: which to auoyde,
27452440I cut them o
ff, and had a purpo
se, now
27462441To leade out manie to the Holy Land,
27472442Le
st re
st, and lying
stil, might make them looke,
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