1 Cit.
Good morrow, Neighbour, whither away so fast?

2 Cit.
I promise you I hardly know my self:
Hear you the News abroad?

1 Cit.
Yes, the King is dead.

2 Cit.
Ill News by'r Lady, seldom comes the better:
I fear, I fear, 'twill prove a giddy World. Enter another Citizen.

3 Cit.
Neighbours, God speed.

1 Cit.
Give you good morrow, Sir.

3 Cit.
Doth the News hold of good King Edward's Death?

2 Cit.
Ay, Sir, it is too true, God help the while.

3 Cit.
Then Masters look to see a troublous World.

1 Cit.
No, no, by God's good Grace, his Son shall Reign.

3 Cit.
Wo to that Land that's govern'd by a Child.

2 Cit.
In him there is a hope of Government:
Which in his Non-age, Counsel under him,
And in his full and ripened Years, himself
No doubt shall then, and 'till then govern well.

1 Cit.
So stood the State when Henry the Sixth
Was crown'd in Paris, but at nine Months old.

3 Cit.
Stood the State so? No, no, good Friends, God wot;
For then this Land was famously enrich'd
With politick grave Counsel; then the King
Had virtuous Uncles to protect his Grace.

1 Cit.
Why so hath this, both by his Father and Mother.

3 Cit.
Better it were they all came by his Father;
Or by his Father there were none at all:
For Emulation, who shall now be nearest,
Will touch us all too near, if God prevent not.
O full of danger is the Duke of Glo'ster,

And the Queen's Sons, and Brothers, haught and proud:
And were they to be rul'd, and not to rule,
This sickly Land might solace as before.

1 Cit.
Come, come, we fear the worst, all will be well.

3 Cit.
When Clouds are seen, wise Men put on their Cloaks;
When great Leaves fall, then Winter is at hand;
When the Sun sets, who doth not look for Night?
Untimely Storms make Men expect a Dearth:
All may be well; but if God sort it so,
'Tis more than we deserve, or I expect.

2 Cit.
Truly the Hearts of Men are full of fear:
You cannot reason, almost, with a Man
That looks not heavily, and full of dread.

3 Cit.
Before the days of Change, still is it so
By a divine instinct Mens Minds mistrust
Pursuing Danger; as by proof we see
The Water swell before a boist'rous Storm;
But leave it all to God, whither away?

2 Cit.
Marry we were sent for to the Justices.

3 Cit.
And so was I, I'll bear you Company. [Exeunt.

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