Reading The Second Part of the Henry the Fourth, Contaning his Death: and the Coronation of King Henry the Fift

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OPen your Eares: For which of you will stop

□he vent of hearing, when loud Rumour speakes?

□ from the Orient, to the drooping West

(Making the wind my Post‑horse) still vnfold

The Acts commenced on this Ball of Earth.

Vpon my Tongue, continuall Slanders ride,

The which, in every Language, I pronounce,

Stuffing the Eares of them with false Reports:

I speak of Peace, while couert Enmitie

(Vnder the smile of Safety) wounds the World:

And who but Rumour, who but onely I

Make fearfull Musters, and prepar'd Defence,

Whil'st the bigge yeare, swolne with some other griefes,

Is thought with childe, by the sterne Tyrant, Warre,

And no such matter? Rumour, is a Pipe

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