The History of King Leir (Quarto, 1605)

 The History of King Leir
 490And many times doe marry them with nothing.
 491Gon. With nothing! marry God forbid: why, are there any (such?
 492Rag. I meane, no money.
 493Gon. I cry you mercy, I mistooke you much:
 494And she is far too stately for the Church;
 495Sheele lay her husbands Benefice on her back,
 496Euen in one gowne, if she may haue her will.
 497Ra. In faith, poore soule, I pitty her a little.
 498Would she were lesse fayre, or more fortunate.
 499Well, I thinke long vntill I see my Morgan,
 500The gallant Prince of Cambria, here arriue.
 501Gon. And so do I, vntill the Cornwall King
 502Present himselfe, to consummate my ioyes.
 503Peace, here commeth my father.
 504Enter Leir, Perillus and others.
 505Leir. Cease, good my Lords, and sue not to reuerse
 506Our censure, which is now irreuocable.
 507We haue dispatched letters of contract
 508Vnto the Kings of Cambria and of Cornwall;
 509Our hand and seale will iustify no lesse:
 510Then do not so dishonour me, my Lords,
 511As to make shipwrack of our kingly word.
 512I am as kind as is the Pellican,
 513That kils it selfe, to saue her young ones liues:
 514And yet as ielous as the princely Eagle,
 515That kils her young ones, if they do but dazell
 516Vpon the radiant splendor of the Sunne. Enter
 Kings of
 Cornwall
 and Cam-
 bria.
  
 517Within this two dayes I expect their comming
 518But in good time, they are arriu'd already.
 519This haste of yours, my Lords, doth testify
 520The feruent loue you beare vnto my daughters: 
 521And think your selues as welcome to King Leir,
 522As euer Pryams children were to him.
 523Corn. My gracious Lord, and father too, I hope,
 524Pardon, for that I made no greater haste :
 525But were my horse as swift as was my will,
 526I long ere this had seene your Maiesty.
 527Cam. No other scuse of absence can I frame,
 Then

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