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

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K. Hen.

For what, Lieutenant? For well vsing me?

Nay, be thou sure, Ile well requite thy kindnesse.

For that it made my imprisonment, a pleasure:

I, such a pleasure, as incaged Birds

Conceiue; when after many moody Thoughts,

At last, by Notes of Houshold harmonie,

They quite forget their losse of Libertie.

But Warwicke, after God, thou set'st me free,

And chiefely therefore, I thanke God, and thee,

He was the Author, thou the Instrument.

Therefore that I may conquer Fortunes spight,

By liuing low, where Fortune cannot hurt me,

And that the people of this blessed Land

May not be punisht with my thwarting starres,

Warwicke, although my Head still weare the Crowne,

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