K. Hen. Full well hath Clifford play’d the orator,

Inferring arguments of mighty force.

45 But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never hear

[♦] That things ill-got had ever bad success?

And happy always was it for that son

[♦] Whose father for his hoarding went to hell?

I’ll leave my son my virtuous deeds behind;

50 And would my father had left me no more!

For all the rest is held at such a rate

As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep