Henry IV - Part 1 by William Shakespeare
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Hotsp. And you in Hell, as oft as he heares Owen Glendower spoke of Glend. I cannot blame him: At my Natiuitie, The front of Heauen was full of fierie shapes, Of burning Cressets: and at my Birth, The frame and foundation of the Earth Shak'd like a Coward Hotsp. Why so it would haue done at the same season, if your Mothers Cat had but kitten'd, though your selfe had neuer beene borne Glend. I say the Earth did shake when I was borne Hotsp. And I say the Earth was not of my minde, If you suppose, as fearing you, it shooke Glend. The heauens were all on fire, the Earth did tremble Hotsp. Oh, then the Earth shooke To see the Heauens on fire, And not in feare of your Natiuitie. Diseased Nature oftentimes breakes forth In strange eruptions; and the teeming Earth Is with a kinde of Collick pincht and vext, By the imprisoning of vnruly Winde Within her Wombe: which for enlargement striuing, |
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