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

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King.

O thou that iudgest all things, stay my thoghts:

My thoughts, that labour to perswade my soule,

Some violent hands were laid on Humfries life:

If my suspect be false, forgiue me God,

For iudgement onely doth belong to thee:

Faine would I go to chafe his palie lips,

With twenty thousand kisses, and to draine

Vpon his face an Ocean of salt teares,

To tell my loue vnto his dumbe deafe trunke,

And with my fingers feele his hand, vnfeeling:

But all in vaine are these meane Obsequies,

Bed put forth.

And to suruey his dead and earthy Image:

What were it but to make my sorrow greater?

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