Reading The third Part of Henry the Sixt, with the death of the Duke of Yorke

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Mess.

Enuironed he was with many foes,

And stood against them, as the hope of Troy

Against the Greekes, that would haue entred Troy.

But Hercules himselfe must yeeld to oddes:

And many stroakes, though with a little Axe,

Hewes downe and fells the hardest‑tymber'd Oake.

By many hands your Father was subdu'd,

But onely slaught'red by the irefull Arme

Of vn‑relenting Clifford, and the Queene:

Who crown'd the gracious Duke in high despight,

Laugh'd in his face: and when with griefe he wept,

The ruthlesse Queene gaue him, to dry his Cheekes,

A Napkin, steeped in the harmelesse blood

Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford slaine:

And after many scornes, many foule taunts,

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