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

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Iden.

Nay, it shall nere be said, while England stands,

That Alexander Iden an Esquire of Kent,

Tooke oddes to combate a poore famisht man.

Oppose thy stedfast gazing eyes to mine,

See if thou canst out‑face me with thy lookes:

Set limbe to limbe, and thou art farre the lesser:

Thy hand is but a finger to my fist,

Thy legge a sticke compared with this Truncheon,

My foote shall fight with all the strength thou hast,

And if mine arme be heaued in the Ayre,

Thy graue is digged already in the earth:

As for words, whose greatnesse answer's words,

Let this my sword report what speech forbeares.

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