Of the Kinde Heires of These Unkinde Times
For that the might Nabuchadnezar,
From man turn'd beast, from beast turnd man againe,
And was restor'd vnto his former honor:
Yet when at last Death had this changeling slaine,
Euilmoradac his deere sonne and heire,
His carcase did deuide in gobbets small;
And gaue it crowes, and kites and fowles of th' aire.
Because he should turne king no more at all
That was an vnkinde part to part him so;
The heires this Age affoords affoord more loue
To their deceasèd sires; for, did they knowe
They should againe from death to life remoue,
They would not part them (for that part were euil)
But they would giue them wholy to the deuil.
From man turn'd beast, from beast turnd man againe,
And was restor'd vnto his former honor:
Yet when at last Death had this changeling slaine,
Euilmoradac his deere sonne and heire,
His carcase did deuide in gobbets small;
And gaue it crowes, and kites and fowles of th' aire.
Because he should turne king no more at all
That was an vnkinde part to part him so;
The heires this Age affoords affoord more loue
To their deceasèd sires; for, did they knowe
They should againe from death to life remoue,
They would not part them (for that part were euil)
But they would giue them wholy to the deuil.
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