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INDUCTION |
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Enter Rumour painted full of tongues. |
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| 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? | |
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Henry IV Part II - William Shakespeare |
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