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Gard.

Pardon me Madam. Little ioy haue I

To breath these newes; yet what I say, is true;

King Richard, he is in the mighty hold

Of Bullingbrooke, their Fortunes both are weigh'd:

In your Lords Scale, is nothing but himselfe,

And some few Vanities, that make him light:

But in the Ballance of great Bullingbrooke,

Besides himselfe, are all the English Peeres,

And with that oddes he weighes King Richard downe.

Poste you to London, and you'l finde it so,

I speake no more, then euery one doth know.

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