INDUCTION


Enter Rumour painted full of tongues.




Open your ears; for which of you will stop

The vent of hearing when loud Rumour speaks?

I, from the Orient to the drooping West,

Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold

The acts commenced on this ball of earth.

Upon my tongues continual slanders ride,

The which in every language I pronounce,

Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

I speak of peace, while covert enmity

Under the smile of safety wounds the world;

And who but Rumour, who but I,

Make fearful musters, and prepar'd defense,

Whiles the big year, swoln with some other grief,

Is thought with child by the stern tyrant War,

And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe

Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures,

And of so easy and so plain a stop

That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,

The still-discordant wav'ring multitude,

Can play upon it. But what need I thus

My well-known body to anatomize

Among my household?



Henry IV Part II - William Shakespeare






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