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The Troublesome Reign of King John ((Quarto, 1581))
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of King Iohn.
1499 O helpe me Hubert, gentle keeper helpe:
1501Tend not to reaue a wretched guiltles life.
1504What meaneth this? Good Hubert plead the case.
1506Harmfull and harsh, hells horror to be heard:
1510Hubert No newes of death, but tidings of more hate,
1511A wrathfull doome, and most vnluckie fate:
1513Be deafe, heare not, its hell to tell the rest.
1515Tis hell, tis horror, not for one to heare:
1516What is it man if it must needes be don,
1517Act it, and end it, that the paine were gon.
1520My heart my head, and all my powers beside,
1521To aide the office haue at once denide.
1522Peruse this letter, lines of treble woe,
1523Read ore my charge, and pardon when you know.
1524Hubert
these are to commaund thee, as thou tendrest our
1525quiet in minde and the estate of our person, that pre-
1526sently vpon the receipt of our commaund, thou put out
1527the eyes of Arthur Plantaginet.
1530 Contagious venyme dwelleth in his heart,
1532Unreuerent may I be to blame the heauens
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