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.

I know thee not, old man: Fall to thy Prayers:

How ill white haires become a Foole, and Iester?

I haue long dream'd of such a kinde of man,

So surfeit‑swell'd, so old, and so prophane:

But being awake, I do despise my dreame.

Make lesse thy body (hence) and more thy Grace,

Leaue gourmandizing; Know the Graue doth gape

For thee, thrice wider then for other men.

Reply not to me, with a Foole‑borne Iest,

Presume not, that I am the thing I was,

For heauen doth know (so shall the world perceiue)

That I haue turn'd away my former Selfe,

So will I those that kept me Companie.

When thou dost heare I am, as I haue bin,

Approach me, and thou shalt be as thou was't

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