Reading The Life of Henry the Fift [Henry V] — William Shakespeare

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Bish. Cant.

The courses of his youth promis'd it not.

The breath no sooner left his Fathers body,

But that his wildnesse, mortify'd in him,

Seem'd to dye too: yea, at that very moment,

Consideration like an Angell came,

And whipt th'offending Adam

out of him;

Leauing his body as a Paradise,

T'inuelop and containe Celestiall Spirits.

Neuer was such a sodaine Scholler made:

Neuer came Reformation in a Flood,

With such a heady currance scowring faults:

Nor neuer Hidra-headed Wilfulnesse

So soone did loose his Seat; and all at once;

As in this King.

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