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

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West.

You speak (Lord Mowbray) now you know not what.

The Earle of Hereford was reputed then

In England the most valiant Gentleman.

Who knowes, on whom Fortune would then haue smil'd?

But if your Father had beene Victor there,

Hee ne're had borne it out of Couentry.

For all the Countrey, in a generall voyce,

Cry'd hate vpon him: and all their prayers, and loue,

Were set on Herford, whom they doted on,

And bless'd, and grac'd, and did more then the King.

But this is meere digression from my purpose.

Here come I from our Princely Generall,

To know your Griefes; to tell you, from his Grace,

That hee will giue you Audience: and wherein

It shall appeare, that your demands are iust,

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