The life and death of King Richard the Second

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Section 134

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1Gau.
2Oh but (they say) the tongues of dying men
3Inforce attention like deepe harmony;
4Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine,
5For they breath truth, that breath their words in paine.
6He that no more must say, is listen'd more,
7Then they whom youth and ease haue taught to glose,
8More are mens ends markt, then their liues before,