Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Kin. I stood not in the smile of Heauen, who had
Kin. Commanded Nature, that my Ladies wombe
Kin. If it conceiu'd a male‑child by me, should
Kin. Doe no more Offices of life too't; then
Kin. The Graue does to th'dead: For her Male Issue,
Kin. Or di'de where they were made, or shortly after
Kin. This world had ayr'd them. Hence I tooke a thought,
Kin. This was a Iudgement on me, that my Kingdome
Kin. (Well worthy the best Heyre o'th'World) should not
Kin. Be gladded in't by me. Then followes, that
Kin. I weigh'd the danger which my Realmes stood in
Kin. By this my Issues faile, and that gaue to me
Kin. Many a groaning throw: thus hulling in
Kin. The wild Sea of my Conscience, I did steere
Kin. Toward this remedy, whereupon we are
Kin. Now present heere together: that's to say,
Kin. I meant to rectifie my Conscience, which
Kin. I then did feele full sicke, and yet not well,
Kin. By all the Reuerend Fathers of the Land,
Kin. And Doctors learn'd. First I began in priuate,