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

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Great Lords, wise men ne'r sit and waile their losse,

But chearely seeke how to redresse their harmes.

What though the Mast be now blowne ouer‑boord,

The Cable broke, the holding‑Anchor lost,

And halfe our Saylors swallow'd in the flood?

Yet liues our Pilot still. Is't meet, that hee

Should leaue the Helme, and like a fearefull Lad,

With tearefull Eyes adde Water to the Sea,

And giue more strength to that which hath too much,

Whiles in his moane, the Ship splits on the Rock,

Which Industrie and Courage might haue sau'd?

Ah what a shame, ah what a fault were this.

Say Warwicke was our Anchor: what of that?

And Mountague our Top‑Mast: what of him?

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