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

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They surfeted with Honey, and began to loathe

The taste of Sweetnesse, whereof a little

More then a little, is by much too much.

So when he had occasion to be seene,

He was but as the Cuckow is in Iune,

Heard, not regarded: seene but with such Eyes,

As sicke and blunted with Communitie,

Affoord no extraordinarie Gaze,

Such as is bent on Sunne‑like Maiestie,

When it shines seldome in admiring Eyes:

But rather drowz'd, and hung their eye‑lids downe,

Slept in his Face, and rendred such aspect

As Cloudie men vse to doe to their aduersaries,

Being with his presence glutted, gorg'd, and full.

And in that very Line, Harry, standest thou:

For thou hast lost thy Princely Priuiledge,

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