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

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Mor.

The liues of all your loving Complices

Leane‑on your health, the which if you giue‑o're

To stormy Passion, must perforce decay.

You cast th'euent of Warre (my Noble Lord)

And summ'd the accompt of Chance, before you said

Let vs make head: It was your presurmize,

That in the dole of blowes, your Son might drop.

You knew he walk'd o're perils, on an edge

More likely to fall in, then to get o're:

You were aduis'd his flesh was capeable

Of Wounds, and Scarres; and that his forward Spirit

Would lift him, where most trade of danger rang'd,

Yet did you say go forth: and none of this

(Though strongly apprehended) could restraine

The stiffe‑borne Action: What hath then befalne?

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