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KING EDWARD

Dagworth.


You mean that I was angry with you for not
flattering the Earl of Warwick.

[Exeunt.




 
SCENE. Sir Thomas Dagworth's Tent; Sir Thomas Dagworth.
To him enter Sir Walter Manny.

Sir Walter.


SIR THOMAS DAGWORTH, I have been weeping
Over the men that are to die to-day.

Dagworth.


Why, brave Sir Walter, you or I may fall.

Sir Walter.


I know this breathing flesh must lie and rot,
Cover'd with silence and forgetfulness;
Death roams in cities' smoke, and in still night,
When men sleep in their beds, walketh about!
How many in walled cities lie and groan,
Turning themselves upon their beds,