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

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Exet.

I, we may march in England, or in France,

Not seeing what is likely to ensue:

This late dissention growne betwixt the Peeres,

Burnes vnder fained ashes of forg'd loue,

And will at last breake out into a flame,

As festred members rot but by degree,

Till bones and flesh and sinewes fall away,

So will this base and enuious discord breed.

And now I feare that fatall Prophecie,

Which in the, time of Henry, nam'd the Fift,

Was in the mouth of euery sucking Babe,

That Henry borne at Monmouth should winne all,

And Henry borne at Windsor, loose all:

Which is so plaine, that Exeter doth wish,

His dayes may finish, ere that haplesse time.

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