| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | XIII. Farewell
‘Fare thee well, great heart’ | | By William Shakespeare (1564–1616) |
| | From ‘The First Part of Henry IV’, Act V. Scene 4Hotspur | |
| Ill-weav’d ambition, how much art thou shrunk! | |
| When that this body did contain a spirit, | |
| A kingdom for it was too small a bound; | |
| But now, two paces of the vilest earth | 5 |
| Is room enough: this earth, that bears thee dead, | |
| Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. | |
| If thou wert sensible of courtesy, | |
| I should not make so dear a show of zeal: | |
| But let my favours hide thy mangled face, | 10 |
| And, even in thy behalf, I’ll thank myself | |
| For doing these fair rites of tenderness. | |
| Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven! | |
| Thy ignomy sleep with thee in the grave, | |
| But not remember’d in thy epitaph! | 15 | | | |
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