Reading The life and death of King Iohn — William Shakespeare

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Bast.

So on my soule he did, for ought he knew:

But wherefore doe you droope? why looke you sad?

Be great in act, as you haue beene in thought:

Let not the world see feare and sad distrust

Gouerne the motion of a kinglye eye:

Be stirring as the time, be fire with fire,

Threaten the threatner, and out‑face the brow

Of bragging horror: So shall inferior eyes

That borrow their behauiours from the great,

Grow great by your example, and put on

The dauntlesse spirit of resolution.

Away, and glister like the god of warre

When he intendeth to become the field:

Shew boldnesse and aspiring confidence:

What, shall they seeke the Lion in his denne,

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