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London. A street.
[Enter two Citizens meeting]
FIRST CITIZEN
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Good mor|row neigh|bor: wheth|er away | so fast?
SECOND CITIZEN
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I prom|ise you,| I scarce|ly know | myself:
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Hear you | the news | abroad?
FIRST CITIZEN
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Yes, that | the king | is dead. (tri
with prev)
SECOND CITIZEN
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Ill news | by our la|dy, sel|dom comes | the
better:
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I fear,| I fear,| 'twill prove | a gid|dy world.
[Enter another Citizen]
THIRD CITIZEN
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Neighbors,| God speed.
FIRST CITIZEN
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Give | you good mor|row sir.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Doth the / news hold | of good | King^Ed|ward's
death?
SECOND CITIZEN
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Aye sir,| it is / too true,| God help | the while.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Then mast|ers look | to see | a troub|lous world.
FIRST CITIZEN
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No* no,| by God's good grace,| his son | shall
reign.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Woe to | the land | that's gov|erned by | a
child.
SECOND CITIZEN
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In him | there is | a hope | of gov|ernment,
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Which^in | his non|age, coun|cil und|er him,
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And in | his full | and rip|ened years,| himself
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No doubt | shall then,| and till | then gov|ern
well.
FIRST CITIZEN
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So stood | the state,| when Hen/ry the | Sixth
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Was || crowned in | Paris,| but at | nine
months old.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Stood the | state so*?| No* no,| good friends,| God^wot
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For then | this land | was fam|ously | enriched
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With pol|itic / grave couns|el; then | the king
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Had virt|uous unc|les to | protect | his grace.
FIRST CITIZEN
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Why so | hath this,| both by his | father and |
mother.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Better it | were they | all came^|by his | father:
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Or by | the fath|er there | were none | at all:
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For em|ula|tion, who | shall now | be nearest,
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Will touch | us all | too* near,| if God | prevent
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O / full of | danger is the | Duke of |
Gloucester,
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And the / queen's sons,| and broth|ers, haught | and
proud:
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And were | they to | be ruled,| and not | to rule,
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This sick|ly land,| might sol|ace as | before.
FIRST CITIZEN
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Come* come,| we fear | the worst:| all* will | be
well.
THIRD CITIZEN
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When clouds | are seen,| wisemen*| put^on | their
cloaks;
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When great | leaves fall, then | winter | is at hand;
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When the / sun sets,| who doth | not look | for
night?
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Untime|ly storms,| make men | expect | a dearth:
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All may | be well;| but if / God sort | it so,
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'Tis more | than we | deserve,| or I | expect.
SECOND CITIZEN
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Truly,| the hearts | of men | are full | of fear:
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Ye can|not reas|on (al|most) with | a man,
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That looks | not heav|ily,| and full | of dread.
THIRD CITIZEN
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Before | the days | of change,| still is | it so,
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By a di/vine in|stinct, men's minds | mistrust
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Pursu|ing dang|er: as | by proof | we see
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The wat|er swell | before | a boist|erous storm:
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But leave | it all | to God.| Whither | away?
SECOND CITIZEN
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Marry | we were | sent for / to the | justices.
THIRD CITIZEN
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And so | was I:| I'll bear | you comp|any.
[Exeunt]