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The
Second
Part
of
Confound themselves with working. Learn this,
Thomas,
And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends,
A hoop of gold to bind thy brothers in,
That the united vessel of their blood, 44
Mingled with venom of suggestion —
As, force perforce, the age will pour it in —
Shall never leak, though it do work as strong
As aconitum or rash gunpowder. 48
Cla. I shall observe him with all care and love.
King. Why art thou not at Windsor with him,
Thomas ?
Cla. He is not there to-day; he dines in London.
King. And how accompanied? canst thou tell
that ? 52
Cla. With Poins and other his continual followers.
King. Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds;
And he, the noble image of my youth,
Is overspread with them: therefore my grief 56
Stretches itself beyond the hour of death:
The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape
In forms imaginary the unguided days
And rotten times that you shall look upon 60
When I am sleeping with my ancestors.
For when his headstrong riot hath no curb,
When rage and hot blood are his counsellors,
When means and lavish manners meet together, 64
O ! with what wings shall his affections fly
Towards fronting peril and oppos'd decay.
War. My
gracious lord,
you look
beyond him quite
:
The prince but studies his
companions
68
Like a strange tongue, wherein, to gain the language,
'Tis needful that the most immodest word41 Confound:
exhaust
44.48 Ci
n
65 affections:
inclinations
67 look beyond: misjudge
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