Reading The second Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Good Duke Humfrey.

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Glost.

Ah gracious Lord, these dayes are dangerous:

Vertue is choakt with foule Ambition,

And Charitie chas'd hence by Rancours hand;

Foule Subornation is predominant,

And Equitie exil'd your Highnesse Land.

I know, their Complot is to haue my Life:

And if my death might make this Iland happy,

And proue the Period of their Tyrannie,

I would expend it with all willingnesse.

But mine is made the Prologue to their Play:

For thousands more, that yet suspect no perill,

Will not conclude their plotted Tragedie.

Beaufords red sparkling eyes blab his hearts mallice,

And Suffolks cloudie Brow his stormie hate;

Sharpe Buckingham vnburthens with his tongue,

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