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

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King.

Most subiect is the fattest Soyle to Weedes:

And hee (the Noble Image of my Youth)

Is ouer‑spread with them: therefore my griefe

stretches it selfe beyond the howre of death.

The blood weepes from my heart, when I doe shape

(In formes imaginarie) th'vnguided Dayes,

And rotten Times, that you shall looke vpon,

When I am sleeping with my Ancestors.

For when his head‑strong Riot hath no Curbe,

When Rage and hot‑Blood are his Counsailors,

When Meanes and lauish Manners meete together;

Oh, with what Wings shall his Affections flye

Towards fronting Perill, and oppos'd Decay?

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