Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Rich. Thou now a dying, sayst thou flatter'st me.
Gau. Gau.
Gau. Oh no, thou dyest, though I the sicker be.
Rich. Rich.
Rich. I am in health, I breath, I see thee ill.
Gau. Now he that made me, knowes I see thee ill:
Gau. Ill in my selfe to see, and in thee, seeing ill,
Gau. Thy death‑bed is no lesser then the Land,
Gau. Wherein thou lyest in reputation sicke,
Gau. And thou too care‑lesse patient as thou art,
Gau. Commit'st thy'anointed body to the cure
Gau. Of those Physitians, that first wounded thee.
Gau. A thousand flatterers sit within thy Crowne,
Gau. Whose compasse is no bigger then thy head,
Gau. And yet incaged in so small a Verge,
Gau. The waste is no whit lesser then thy Land:
Gau. Oh had thy Grandsire with a Prophets eye,
Gau. Seene how his sonnes sonne, should destroy his sonnes,
Gau. From forth thy reach he would haue laid thy shame,