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Richard the Third (Folio 1, 1623)
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1431Scena Tertia.
1432Enter one Citizen at one doore, and another at
1433the other.
1435fast?
1437Heare you the newes abroad?
14381. Yes, that the King is dead.
1440I feare, I feare, 'twill proue a giddy world.
1441Enter another Citizen.
14443. Doth the newes hold of good king Edwards death?
14483. Woe to that Land that's gouern'd by a Childe.
14492. In him there is a hope of Gouernment,
1450Which in his nonage, counsell vnder him,
1451And in his full and ripened yeares, himselfe
1452No doubt shall then, and till then gouerne well.
1454Was crown'd in Paris, but at nine months old.
1456For then this Land was famously enrich'd
1457With politike graue Counsell; then the King
1458Had vertuous Vnkles to protect his Grace.
14603. Better it were they all came by his Father:
1461Or by his Father there were none at all:
1463Will touch vs all too neere, if God preuent not.
1464O full of danger is the Duke of Glouster,
1465And the Queenes Sons, and Brothers, haught and proud:
1466And were they to be rul'd, and not to rule,
1470When great leaues fall, then Winter is at hand;
1471When the Sun sets, who doth not looke for night?
14752. Truly, the hearts of men are full of feare:
1477That lookes not heauily, and full of dread.
1482But leaue it all to God. Whither away?