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

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War.

There is a Historie in all mens Lives,

Figuring the nature of the Times deceas'd:

The which obseru'd, a man may prophecie

With a neere ayme, of the maine chance of things,

As yet not come to Life, which in their Seedes

And weake beginnings lye entreasured:

Such things become the Hatch and Brood of Time;

And by the necessarie forme of this,

King Richard might create a perfect guesse,

That great Northumberland, then false to him,

Would of that Seed, grow to a greater falsenesse,

Which should not finde a ground to roote upon,

Vnlesse on you.

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