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

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King.

Heauen pardon thee:

Yet let me wonder, Harry,

At thy affections, which doe hold a Wing

Quite from the flight of all thy ancestors.

Thy place in Councell thou hast rudely lost,

Which by thy younger Brother is supply'de;

And art almost an alien to the hearts

Of all the Court and Princes of my blood.

The hope and expectation of thy time

Is ruin'd, and the Soule of euery man

Prophetically doe fore‑thinke thy fall.

Had I so lauish of my presence beene,

So common hackney'd in the eyes of men,

So stale and cheape to vulgar Company;

Opinion, that did helpe me to the Crowne,

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