23552123Or lowlie factor for anothers gaine:

23562124But as successiuelie from bloud to bloud,

23572125Your right of birth, your Emperie, your owne:

23582126For this consorted with the Citizens

23592127Your verie worshipfull and louing frinds,

23602128And by their vehement instigation,

23612129In this iust suite come I to moue your grace.

23622130Glo. I know not whether to depart in silence,

23632131Or bitterlie to speake in your reproofe,

23642132Best fitteth my degree or your condition:

23752133Your loue deserues my thanks, but my desert

23762134Vnmeritable shunes your high request,

23772135First if all obstacles were cut awaie,

23782136And that my path were euen to the crown,

23792137As my ripe reuenew and dew by birth,

23802138Yet so much is my pouerty of spirit,

23812139So mightie and so many my defects,

23822140As I had rather hide me from my greatnes,

23832141Beeing a Barke to brooke no mightie sea,

23842142Then in my greatnes couet to be hid,

23852143And in the vapour of my glorie smotherd:

23862144But God be thanked there's no need of me,

23872145And much I need to helpe you if need were,

23882146The roiall tree hath left vs roiall fruit,

23892147Which mellowed by the stealing houres of time,

23902148Will well become the seat of maiestie,

23912149And make no doubt vs happie by his raigne,

23922150On him I laie what you would laie on me:

23932151The right and fortune of his happie stars,

23942152Which God defend that I should wring from him.

23952153Buck. My lord, this argues conscience in your grace,

23962154But the respects thereof are nice and triuiall,

23972155All circumstances well considered:

23982156You saie that Edward is your brothers sonne,

23992157So saie we to, but not by Edwards wife,

24002158For first he was contract to lady Lucy,

24012159Your mother liues a witnesse to that vowe,

24022160And afterward by substitute betrothed

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