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Well you deserve: they well deserve to have,
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That know the strong'st and surest way to get.
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Uncle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyes;
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Tears show their love, but want their remedies.
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Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
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Though you are old enough to be my heir.
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What you will have, I'll give, and willing too;
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For do we must what force will have us do.
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Set on towards London, cousin, is it so?
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HENRY BOLINGBROKE:
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Yea, my good lord.
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KING RICHARD II:
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Then I must not say no.
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QUEEN:
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What sport shall we devise here in this garden,
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To drive away the heavy thought of care?
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Lady:
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Madam, we'll play at bowls.
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QUEEN:
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'Twill make me think the world is full of rubs,
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And that my fortune rubs against the bias.
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Lady:
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Madam, we'll dance.
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QUEEN:
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My legs can keep no measure in delight,
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When my poor heart no measure keeps in grief:
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Therefore, no dancing, girl; some other sport.
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Lady:
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Madam, we'll tell tales.
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QUEEN:
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Of sorrow or of joy?
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Lady:
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Of either, madam.
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QUEEN:
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Of neither, girl:
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For of joy, being altogether wanting,
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It doth remember me the more of sorrow;
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Or if of grief, being altogether had,
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It adds more sorrow to my want of joy:
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For what I have I need not to repeat;
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And what I want it boots not to complain.
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Lady:
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Madam, I'll sing.
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QUEEN:
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'Tis well that thou hast cause
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But thou shouldst please me better, wouldst thou weep.
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Lady:
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I could weep, madam, would it do you good.
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QUEEN:
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And I could sing, would weeping do me good,
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And never borrow any tear of thee.
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But stay, here come the gardeners:
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Let's step into the shadow of these trees.
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My wretchedness unto a row of pins,
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They'll talk of state; for every one doth so
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Against a change; woe is forerun with woe.
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Gardener:
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Go, bind thou up yon dangling apricocks,
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Which, like unruly children, make their sire
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Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight:
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Give some supportance to the bending twigs.
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Go thou, and like an executioner,
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Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprays,
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That look too lofty in our commonwealth:
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All must be even in our government.
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You thus employ'd, I will go root away
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The noisome weeds, which without profit suck
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The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.
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Servant:
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Why should we in the compass of a pale
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Keep law and form and due proportion,
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Showing, as in a model, our firm estate,
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When our sea-walled garden, the whole land,
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Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up,
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Her fruit-trees all upturned, her hedges ruin'd,
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Her knots disorder'd and her wholesome herbs
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Swarming with caterpillars?
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Gardener:
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Hold thy peace:
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He that hath suffer'd this disorder'd spring
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Hath now himself met with the fall of leaf:
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The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter,
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