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

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A wispe of straw were worth a thousand Crowns,

To make this shamelesse Callet know her selfe:

Helen of Greece was fayrer farre then thou,

Although thy Husband may be Menelaus;

And ne're was Agamemnons Brother wrong'd

By that false Woman, as this King by thee.

His Father reuel'd in the heart of France,

And tam'd the King, and made the Dolphin stoope:

And had he match'd according to his State,

He might haue kept that glory to this day.

But when he tooke a begger to his bed,

And grac'd thy poore Sire with his Bridall day,

Euen then that Sun‑shine brew'd a showre for him,

That washt his Fathers fortunes forth of France,

And heap'd sedition on his Crowne at home:

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