Reading The life and death of King Richard the Second

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First, heauen be the record to my speech,

In the deuotion of a subiects loue,

Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince,

And free from other misbegotten hate,

Come I appealant to this Princely presence.

Now Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee,

And marke my greeting well: for what I speake,

My body shall make good vpon this earth,

Or my diuine soule answer it in heauen.

Thou art a Traitor, and a Miscreant;

Too good to be so, and too bad to liue,

Since the more faire and christall is the skie,

The vglier seeme the cloudes that in it flye:

Once more, the more to aggrauate the note,

With a foule Traitors name stuffe I thy throte,

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