| 305 & 306 Richard ynough: I will be King, or dye. Brother, thou shalt to London presently, | I go to work in Spain: hot, dry hell! Babe 'n' nurse go too. Ye yl trull hinder'd th' Chr– |
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Spain. Cervantes invited the little family to stay with him in Seville. Cervantes wrote about this nurse (as the 'afflicted matron') and Kit's courtship in Crete, in Don Quixote Part II, Chapter 38 and into 39, leaving out Rita's death. | |
| 307 & 308 and whet on Warwick, to this Enterprise. Thou Richard shalt to the Duke of Norfolke, | istian color she knew I'd created for our household, 'n' kept wearin' th'-th'-that forkt-w– |
| 309 & 310 and tell him priuily of our intent. You Edward shall unto my Lord Cobham, | aist, to B call'd my whore in th' report R lad mail'd you on my neuufound ill h– |
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forked-waist. A sexy style. He writes to Francis Bacon? R lad. This could be Bacon's cousin Cooke, who came down to collect plays and pay for the Cardinal Allen job? | |
| 311 & 312 With whom the Kentishmen will willingly rise. In them I trust, for they are Souldiers, | elth. Error! I' truth, I'm well in Seuille with this thin SSS friend I know who met me gayly, |
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Error! Refers to the messenger's misinformation plus the necessary misspelling of "health." this thin SSS friend. Miguel Cervantes. | |
| 313 & 314 Wittie, courteous, liberall, full of spirit. While you are thus imploy'd, what resteth more? | stutter'd his offer to share home with my people. I wis I call it braue. O, will our trull yet u– |
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stutter'd. Cervantes was a famous stammerer. The outside lines here honor not only Kit's Kentish compatriots but also his thin friend. | |
| 315 & 316 But that I seeke occasion how to rise, And yet the King not priuie to my Drift, | p-root my design t' take a ten-week study in th' best church? I ran to it: O, fie! Oi! Oi! |
Henry VI, Part III. First Folio of Shakespeare. Histories. pp. 147-150.
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