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.

'Tis more then time: And (my most Noble Lord)

I heare for certaine, and do speake the truth:

The gentle Arch‑bishop of Yorke is vp

With well appointed Powres: he is a man

Who with a double Surety bindes his Followers.

My Lord (your Sonne) had onely but the Corpes,

But shadowes, and the shewes of men to fight.

For that same word (Rebellion) did diuide

The action of their bodies, from their soules,

And they did fight with queasinesse, constrain'd

As men drinke Potions; that their Weapons only

Seem'd on our side: but for their Spirits and Soules,

This word (Rebellion) it had froze them vp.

As Fish are in a Pond. But now the Bishop

Turnes Insurrection to Religion,

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