Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
Title: Search
1 Marke it) the eldest of them, at three yeares old
1 I'th'swathing cloathes, the other from their Nursery
1 Were stolne, and to this houre, no ghesse in knowledge
1 Which way they went.
2 2
2 How long is this ago?
1 1
1 Some twenty yeares.
2 That a Kings Children should be so conuey'd,
2 So slackely guarded, and the search so slow
2 That could not trace them.
1 Howsoere, 'tis strange,
1 Or that the negligence may well be laugh'd at:
1 Yet is it true Sir.
2 I do well beleeue you.
1 We must forbeare. Heere comes the Gentleman,