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The Troublesome Reign of King John ((Quarto, 1581))
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The troublesome Raigne
242Robert Was euer man thus wrongd as Robert is?
244Iohn Yong man how now, what art thou in a traunce?
245Elianor Philip awake, the man is in a dreame.
248Quo me rapit tempestas?
249What winde of honour blowes this furie forth?
251Me thinkes I heare a hollow Eccho sound,
252That Philip is the Sonne vnto a King:
253The whistling leaues vpon the trembling trees,
255The bubling murmur of the waters fall,
256Records Philippus Regius filius:
258Filling the ayre with glorie of my birth:
259Birds, bubbles, leaues, and mountaines, Eccho, all
260Ring in mine eares, that I am Richards Sonne.
261Fond man, ah whether art thou carried?
262How are thy thoughts ywrapt in Honors heauen?
263Forgetfull what thou art, and whence thou camst.
264Thy Fathers land cannot maintaine these thoughts,
266And well they may; for why this mounting minde
268Why how now? knowest thou where thou art?
270Wilt thou vpon a frantick madding vaine
272No, keepe thy land, though Richard were thy Sire,
276Philip, that Fauconbridge cleaues to thy iawes:
277It will not out, I cannot for my life
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