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

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Ch. Iust.

I then did vse the Person of your Father:

The Image of his power, lay then in me,

And in th'administration of his Law,

Whiles I was busie for the Commonwealth,

Your Highnesse pleased to forget my place,

The Maiesty, and power of Law, and Iustice,

The Image of the King, whom I presented,

And strooke me in my very Seate of Iudgement:

Whereon (as an Offender to your Father)

I gaue bold way to my Authority,

And did commit you. If the deed were ill,

Be you contented, wearing now the Garland,

To haue a Sonne, set your Decrees at naught?

To plucke downe Iustice from your awefull Bench?

To trip the course of Law, and blunt the Sword

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