Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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B. Can. With sunken Wrack, and sum-lesse Treasuries.
Bish. Ely. Bish. Ely.
Bish. Ely. But there's a saying very old and true,
Bish. Ely. If that you will France win, then with Scotland first begia.
Bish. Ely. For once the Eagle (England) being in prey,
Bish. Ely. To her vnguarded Nest, the Weazell (Scot)
Bish. Ely. Comes sneaking, and so sucks her Princely Egges,
Bish. Ely. Playing the Mouse in absence of the Cat,
Bish. Ely. To tame and hauocke more then she can eate.
Exet. Exet.
Exet. It followes then, the Cat must stay at home,
Exet. Yet that is but a crush'd necessity,
Exet. Since we haue lockes to safegard necessaries,
Exet. And pretty traps to catch the petty theeues.
Exet. While that the Armed hand doth fight abroad,
Exet. Th'aduised head defends it selfe at home:
Exet. For Gouernment, though high, and low, and lower,
Exet. Put into parts, doth keepe in one consent,
Exet. Congreeing in a full and natural close,
Exet. Like Musicke.