Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
Title: Search
Kin. Who had beene hither sent on the debating
Kin. And Marriage 'twixt the Duke of Orleance, and
Kin. Our Daughter Mary: I'th'Progresse of this busines,
Kin. Ere a determinate resolution, hee
Kin. (I meane the Bishop) did require a respite,
Kin. Wherein he might the King his Lord aduertise,
Kin. Whether our Daughter were legitimate,
Kin. Respecting this our Marriage with the Dowager,
Kin. Sometimes our Brothers Wife. This respite shooke
Kin. The bosome of my Conscience, enter'd me;
Kin. Yea, with a spitting power, and made to tremble
Kin. The region of my Breast, which forc'd such way,
Kin. That many maz'd considerings, did throng
Kin. And prest in with this Caution. First, me thought
Kin. I stood not in the smile of Heauen, who had
Kin. Commanded Nature, that my Ladies wombe
Kin. If it conceiu'd a male‑child by me, should
Kin. Doe no more Offices of life too't; then
Kin. The Graue does to th'dead: For her Male Issue,
Kin. Or di'de where they were made, or shortly after