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

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King.

Oh Heauen, that one might read the Book of Fate,

And see the reuolution of the Times

Make Mountaines leuell, and the Continent

(Wearie of solide firmenesse) melt it selfe

Into the Sea: and other Times, to see

The beachie Girdle of the Ocean

Too wide for Neptunes hippes; how Chances mocks

And Changes fill the Cuppe of Alteration

With diuers Liquors. 'Tis not tenne yeeres gone,

Since Richard, and Northumberland, great friends,

Did feast together; and in two yeeres after,

Were they at Warres. It is but eight yeeres since,

This Percie was the man, neerest my Soule,

Who, like a Brother, toyl'd in my Affaires,

And layd his Loue and Life vnder my foot:

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