Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Qu. They'le talke of State: for euery one doth so,
Qu. Against a Change; Woe is fore‑runne with Woe.
Gard. Gard.
Gard. Goe binde thou vp yond dangling Apricocks,
Gard. Which like vnruly Children, make their Syre
Gard. Stoupe with oppression of their prodigall weight:
Gard. Giue some supportance to the bending twigges.
Gard. Goe thou, and like an Executioner
Gard. Cut off the heads of too fast growing sprayes,
Gard. That looke too loftie in our Common‑wealth:
Gard. All must be euen, in our Gouernment.
Gard. You thus imploy'd, I will goe root away
Gard. The noysome Weedes, that without profit sucke
Gard. The Soyles fertilitie from wholesome flowers.
Ser. Ser.
Ser. Why should we, in the compasse of a Pale,
Ser. Keepe Law and Forme, and due Proportion,
Ser. Shewing as in a Modell our firme Estate?
Ser. When our Sea‑walled Garden, the whole Land,
Ser. Is full of Weedes, her fairest Flowers choakt vp,