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

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Wor.

But yet I would your Father had beene here:

The Qualitie and Heire of our Attempt

Brookes no diuision: It will be thought

By some, that know not why he is away,

That wisedome, loyaltie, and meere dislike

Of our proceedings, kept the Earle from hence.

And thinke, how such an apprehension

May turne the tyde of fearefull Faction,

And breede a kinde of question in our cause:

For well you know, wee of the offring side,

Must keepe a loose from strict arbitrement,

And stop all sight‑holes, euery loope, from whence

The eye of reason may prie in vpon vs:

This absence of your Father drawes a Curtaine,

That shewes the ignorant a kinde of feare,

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