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

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Bish.

Wherefore doe I this? so the Question stands.

Briefely to this end: Wee are all diseas'd,

And with our surfetting and wanton howres,

Haue brought our selues into a burning Feuer,

And wee must bleede for it: of which Disease,

Our late King Richard (being infected) dy'd.

But (my most Noble Lord of Westmerland)

I take not on me here as a Physician,

Nor doe I, as an Enemie to Peace,

Troope in the Throngs of Militarie men:

But rather shew a while like fearefull Warre,

To dyet ranke Mindes, sicke of happinesse,

And purge th'obstructions, which begin to stop

Our very Veines of Life: heare me more plainely.

I haue in equall balance iustly weigh'd,

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