Reading The First Part of henry the Fourth, with the life and Death of Henry Sirnamed Hot-spurre

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Hotsp.

I cannot chuse: sometime he angers me,

With telling me of the Moldwarpe and the Ant,

Of the Dreamer Merlin, and his Prophecies;

And of a Dragon, and a finne‑lesse Fish,

A clip‑wing'd Griffin, and a moulten Rauen,

A couching Lyon, and a ramping Cat,

And such a deale of skimble‑skamble Stuffe,

As puts me from my Faith. I tell you what,

He held me last Night, at least, nine howres,

In reckning vp the seuerall Deuils Names,

That were his Lacqueyes:

I cry'd hum, and well, goe too,

But mark'd him not a word. O, he is as tedious

As a tyred Horse, a rayling Wife,

Worse then a smoakie House. I had rather liue

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