Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Con. Austria, Constance.
Fran. Fran.
Fran. 'Tis true (faire daughter) and this blessed day,
Fran. Euer in France shall be kept festiuall:
Fran. To solemnize this day the glorious sunne
Fran. Stayes in his course, and playes the Alchymist,
Fran. Turning with splendor of his precious eye
Fran. The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold:
Fran. The yearely course that brings this day about,
Fran. Shall neuer see it, but a holy day.
Const. Const.
Const. A wicked day, and not a holy day.
Const. What hath this day deseru'd? what hath it done,
Const. That it in golden letters should be set
Const. Among the high tides in the Kalender?
Const. Nay, rather turne this day out of the weeke,
Const. This day of shame, oppression, periury.
Const. Or if it must stand still, let wiues with childe
Const. Pray that their burthens may not fall this day,
Const. Lest that their hopes prodigiously be crost: