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

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Iohn.

You are wel encountred here (my cosin Mowbray)

Good day to you, gentle Lord Archbishop,

And so to you Lord Hastings, and to all.

My Lord of Yorke, it better shew'd with you,

When that your Flocke (assembled by the Bell)

Encircled you, to heare with reuerence

Your exposition on the holy Text,

Then now to see you heere an Iron man

Chearing a rowt of Rebels with your Drumme,

Turning the Word, to Sword; and Life to death:

That man that sits within a Monarches heart,

And ripens in the Sunne‑shine of his fauor,

Would hee abuse the Countenance of the King,

Alack, what Mischiefes might hee set abroach,

In shadow of such Greatnesse? With you, Lord Bishop,

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