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

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Queene.

Why do you rate my Lord of Suffolke thus?

Although the Duke was enemie to him,

Yet he most Christian‑like laments his death:

And for my selfe, Foe as he was to me,

Might liquid teares, or heart‑offending groanes,

Or blood‑consuming sighes recall his Life;

I would be blinde with weeping, sicke with grones,

Looke pale as Prim‑rose with blood‑drinking sighes,

And all to haue the Noble Duke aliue.

What know I how the world may deeme of me?

For it is knowne we were but hollow Friends:

It may be iudg'd I made the Duke away,

So shall my name with Slanders tongue be wounded,

And Princes Courts be fill'd with my reproach:

This get I by his death: Aye me vnhappie,

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