Reading The life and death of King Richard the Second

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Rich.

Wee are amaz'd, and thus long haue we stood

To watch the fearefull bending of thy knee,

Because we thought our selfe thy lawfull King:

And if we be, how dare thy ioynts forget

To pay their awfull dutie to our presence?

If we be not, shew vs the Hand of God,

That hath dismiss'd vs from our Stewardship,

For well wee know, no Hand of Blood and Bone

Can gripe the sacred Handle of our Scepter,

Vnlesse he doe prophane, steale, or vsurpe.

And though you thinke, that all, as you haue done,

Haue torne their Soules, by turning them from vs,

And we are barren, and bereft of Friends:

Yet know, my Master, God Omnipotent,

Is mustring in his Clouds, on our behalfe,

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