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

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Mow.

What thing, in Honor, had my Father lost,

That need to be reuiu'd, and breath'd in me?

The King that lou'd him, as the State stood then,

Was forc'd, perforce compell'd to banish him:

And then, that Henry Bullingbrooke and hee

Being mounted, and both rowsed in their Seates

Their neighing Coursers daring of the Spurre,

Their armed Staues in charge, their Beauers downe,

Their eyes of fire, sparkling through sights of Steele,

And the lowd Trumpet blowing them together:

Then, then, when there was nothing could haue stay'd

My Father from the Breast of Bulling brooke;

O, when the King did throw his Warder downe,

(His owne Life hung vpon the staffe hee threw)

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