(Henry VI.)

If there were reason for these miseries,

Then into limits could I bind my woes;

When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'er-flow?

If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,

Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face?

And wilt thou have a reason for this coil?

I am the sea: hark, how her sighs do blow!

She is the weeping welkin, I the earth;