Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Rob. Betweene my father, and my mother lay,
Rob. As I haue heard my father speake himselfe
Rob. When this same lusty gentleman was got:
Rob. Vpon his death‑bed he by will bequeath'd
Rob. His lands to me, and tooke it on his death
Rob. That this my mothers sonne was none of his;
Rob. And if he were, he came into the world
Rob. Full fourteene weekes before the course of time:
Rob. Then good my Liedge let me haue what is mine,
Rob. My fathers land, as was my fathers will.
K. Iohn. K. Iohn.
K. Iohn. Sirra, your brother is Legittimate,
K. Iohn. Your fathers wife did after wedlock beare him:
K. Iohn. And if she did play false, the fault was hers,
K. Iohn. Which fault lyes on the hazards of all husbands
K. Iohn. That marry wiues: tell me, how if my brother
K. Iohn. Who as you say, tooke paines to get this sonne,
K. Iohn. Had of your father claim'd this sonne for his,
K. Iohn. Insooth, good friend, your father might haue kept
K. Iohn. This Calfe, bred from his Cow from all the world: