The Troublesome Reign of King John ((Quarto, 1581))

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 The troublesome Raigne
 
 1744Confirming warrant of your loyalties,
 1745Dismisse your counsell, sway my state,
 1746Let John doo nothing but by your consents.
 1747Why how now Philip, what extasie is this?
 1748Why casts thou vp thy eyes to heauen so?
 
 1749 There the fiue Moones appeare.
 
 1750Bastard See, see my Lord strange apparitions.
 1751Glauncing mine eye to see the Diadem
 1752Placte by the Bishops on your Highnes head,
 1753From foorth a gloomie cloude, which curtaine like
 1754Displaide it selfe, I sodainly espied
 1755Fiue Moones reflecting, as you sée them now:
 1756Euen in the moment that the Crowne was placte
 1757Gan they appeare, holding the course you see.
 1758Iohn What might portend these apparitions,
 1759Unvsuall signes, forerunners of euent,
 1760Presages of strange terror to the world:
 1761Beleeue me Lords the obiect feares me much.
 1762Philip thou toldst me of me of Wizzard late,
 1763Fetch in the man to descant of this show.
 1764Pembrooke The heauens frowne vpon the sinfull earth,
 1765When with prodigious vnaccustomd signes
 1766They spot their superficies with such wonder.
 1767Essex Before the ruines of Ierusalem,
 1768Such Meteors were the Ensignes of his wrath
 1769That hastned to destroy the faultfull Towne.
 
 1770 Enter the Bastard with the Prophet.
 
 1771Iohn Is this the man?
 1772Bastard It is my Lord.
 1773Iohn Prophet of Pomfret, for so I heare thou art,
 1774That calculatst of many things to come:
 1775Who by a power repleate with heauenly gift
 Canst

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