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

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King.

Yea, there thou mak'st me sad, & mak'st me sin,

In enuy that my Lord Northumberland

Should be the Father of so blest a Sonne:

A Sonne, who is the Theame of Honors tongue;

Among'st a Groue, the very straightest Plant,

Who is sweet Fortunes Minion, and her Pride:

Whil'st I by looking on the praise of him,

See Ryot and Dishonor staine the brow

Of my yong Harry. O that it could be prou'd,

That some Night‑tripping‑Faiery, had exchang'd

In Cradle‑clothes, our Children where they lay,

And call'd mine

Perey

, his Plantagenet:

Then would I haue his Harry, and he mine:

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