Reading The life and death of King Iohn — William Shakespeare

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And once dispatch'd him in an Embassie

To Germany, there with the Emperor

To treat of high affaires touching that time:

Th'advantage of his absence tooke the King,

And in the meane time soiourn'd at my fathers;

Where how he did preuaile, I shame to speake:

But truth is truth, large lengths of seas and shores

Betweene my father, and my mother lay,

As I haue heard my father speake himselfe

When this same lusty gentleman was got:

Vpon his death‑bed he by will bequeath'd

His lands to me, and tooke it on his death

That this my mothers sonne was none of his;

And if he were, he came into the world

Full fourteene weekes before the course of time:

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