Reading The life and death of King Iohn — William Shakespeare

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Bast.

Go, beare him in thine armes:

I am amaz'd me thinkes, and loose my way

Among the thornes, and dangers of this world.

How easie dost thou take all England vp,

From forth this morcell of dead Royaltie?

The life, the right, and truth of all this Realme

Is fled to heauen: and England now is left

To tug and scamble, and to part by th'teeth

The vn‑owed interest of proud swelling State:

Now for the bare‑pickt bone of Maiesty,

Doth dogged warre bristle his angry crest,

And snarleth in the gentle eyes of peace:

Now Powers from home, and discontents at home

Meet in one line: and vast confusion waites

As doth a Rauen on a sicke‑falne beast,

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