Henry VI - Part 2 by William Shakespeare
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His body will I beare vnto the King:
If he reuenge it not, yet will his Friends, So will the Queene, that liuing, held him deere. Enter Beuis, and Iohn Holland. Beuis. Come and get thee a sword, though made of a Lath, they haue bene vp these two dayes Hol. They haue the more neede to sleepe now then Beuis. I tell thee, Iacke Cade the Cloathier, meanes to dresse the Common-wealth and turne it, and set a new nap vpon it Hol. So he had need, for 'tis thred-bare. Well, I say, it was neuer merrie world in England, since Gentlemen came vp Beuis. O miserable Age: Vertue is not regarded in Handy-crafts men Hol. The Nobilitie thinke scorne to goe in Leather Aprons Beuis. Nay more, the Kings Councell are no good Workemen Hol. True: and yet it is said, Labour in thy Vocation: which is as much to say, as let the Magistrates be labouring men, and therefore should we be Magistrates |
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