Reading The first part of King Henry the Sixt — William Shakespeare

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Bed.

Cease, cease these Iarres, & rest your minds in peace:

Let's to the Altar: Heralds wayt on vs;

In stead of Gold, wee'le offer vp our Armes,

Since Armes auayle not, now that Henry's dead,

Posteritie await for wretched yeeres,

When at their Mothers moistned eyes, Babes shall suck,

Our Ile be made a Nourish of salt Teares,

And none but Women left to wayle the dead.

Henry the Fift, thy Ghost I inuocate:

Prosper this Realme, keepe it from Ciuill Broyles,

Combat with aduerse Planets in the Heauens;

A farre more glorious Starre thy Soule will make,

Then Iulius Cæsar, or bright‑‑‑‑

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