18371832They will talke of
state for euery one doth
so,
18381833Again
st a change woe is fore-runne with woe.
18391834Gard. Go bind thou vp yong dangling Aphricokes,
18401835Which like vnruly children make their
sire,
18411836Stoope with oppre
ssion of their prodigall weight,
18421837Giue
some
supportance to the bending twigs,
18431838Go thou, and like an executioner
18441839Cut o
ff the heads of two fa
st growing
spraies,
18451840That looke too loftie in our common-wealth,
18461841All mu
st be euen in our gouernement.
18471842You thus employed, I will goe roote away
18481843The noy
some weedes which without pro
fit
sucke
18491844The
soiles fertilitie from whol
some
flowers.
18501845Man. Why
should we in the compas of a pale,
18511846Keepe law and forme, and due proportion,
18521847Shewing as in a modle our
firme e
state,
18531848When our
sea-walled garden the whole land
18541849Is full of weedes, her faire
st flowers choakt vp,
18551850Her fruit trees all vnprunde, her hedges ruinde,
18561851Her knots di
sordered, and her hol
some hearbs
18591854He that htah
su
ffered this di
sordered
spring,
18601855Hath now him
selfe met with the fall of leafe:
18611856The weedes which his broad
spreading leaues did
shelter,
18621857That
seemde in eating him to hold him vp,
18631858Are pluckt vp roote and all by Bullingbrooke,
18641859I meane the Earle of Wilt
shire, Bu
shie, Greene,
18671862And Bullingbrooke hath cea
sde the wa
stefull king,
18681863Oh what pitie is it that he had not
so trimde,
18691864And dre
st his land as we this garden at time of yeare
18701865Do wound the barke, the
skinne of our fruit trees,
18711866Le
st being ouer prowd in
sap and bloud,
18721867With too much riches it confound it
selfe
18731868Had he done
so to great and growing men,
They
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