Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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King. I can build vp: strange is it that our bloods
King. Of colour, waight, and heat, pour'd all together,
King. Would quite confound distinction: yet stands off
King. In differences so mightie. If she bee
King. All that is vertuous (saue what thou dislik'st)
King. A poore Phisitians daughter, thou dislik'st
King. Of vertue for the name: but doe not so:
King. From lowest place, whence vertuous things proceed,
King. The place is dignified by th' doers deede.
King. Where great additions swell's, and vertue none,
King. It is a dropsied honour. Good alone,
King. Is good without a name? Vilenesse is so:
King. The propertie by what is is, should go,
King. Not by the title. Shee is young, wise, faire,
King. In these, to Nature shee's immediate heire:
King. And these breed honour: that is honours scorne,
King. Which challenges it selfe as honours borne,
King. And is not like the sire: Honours thriue,
King. When rather from our acts we them deriue
King. Then our fore‑goers: the meere words, a slaue