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

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Heare burnes my Candle out; I, heere it dies,

Which whiles it lasted, gaue King Henry light.

O Lancaster! I feare thy ouerthrow,

More then my Bodies parting with my Soule:

My Loue and Feare, glew'd many Friends to thee,

And now I fall. Thy tough Commixtures melts,

Impairing Henry, strength'ning misproud Yorke;

And whether flye the Gnats, but to the Sunne?

And who shines now, but Henries Enemies?

O Phœbus! had'st thou neuer giuen consent,

That Phaeton should checke thy fiery Steeds,

Thy burning Carre neuer had scorch'd the earth.

And Henry, had'st thou sway'd as Kings should do,

Or as thy Father, and his Father did,

Giuing no ground vnto the house of Yorke,

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