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

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For Wormes, braue Percy. Farewell great heart:

Ill‑weau'd Ambition, how much art thou shrunke?

When that this bodie did containe a spirit,

A Kingdome for it was too small a bound:

But now two paces of the vilest Earth

Is roome enough. This Earth that beares the dead,

Beares not aliue so stout a Gentleman.

If thou wer't sensible of curtesie,

I should not make so great a shew of Zeale.

But let my fauours hide thy mangled face,

And euen in thy behalfe, Ile thanke my selfe

For doing these fayre Rites of Tendernesse.

Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heauen,

Thy ignomy sleepe with thee in the graue,

But not remembred in thy Epitaph.

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