Original text | Modern text | Key line |
The son and heire to that same Faulconbridge. | The son and heir to that same Faulconbridge. | KJ I.i.56 |
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My gracious Liege, when that my father liu'd, | My gracious liege, when that my father lived, | KJ I.i.95 |
Your brother did imploy my father much. | Your brother did employ my father much – | KJ I.i.96 |
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And once dispatch'd him in an Embassie | – And once dispatched him in an embassy | KJ I.i.99 |
To Germany, there with the Emperor | To Germany, there with the Emperor | KJ I.i.100 |
To treat of high affaires touching that time: | To treat of high affairs touching that time. | KJ I.i.101 |
Th' aduantage of his absence tooke the King, | Th' advantage of his absence took the King | KJ I.i.102 |
And in the meane time soiourn'd at my fathers; | And in the meantime sojourned at my father's, | KJ I.i.103 |
Where how he did preuaile, I shame to speake: | Where how he did prevail I shame to speak – | KJ I.i.104 |
But truth is truth, large lengths of seas and shores | But truth is truth. Large lengths of seas and shores | KJ I.i.105 |
Betweene my father, and my mother lay, | Between my father and my mother lay, | KJ I.i.106 |
As I haue heard my father speake himselfe | As I have heard my father speak himself, | KJ I.i.107 |
When this same lusty gentleman was got: | When this same lusty gentleman was got. | KJ I.i.108 |
Vpon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd | Upon his deathbed he by will bequeathed | KJ I.i.109 |
His lands to me, and tooke it on his death | His lands to me, and took it on his death | KJ I.i.110 |
That this my mothers sonne was none of his; | That this, my mother's son, was none of his; | KJ I.i.111 |
And if he were, he came into the world | And if he were, he came into the world | KJ I.i.112 |
Full fourteene weekes before the course of time: | Full fourteen weeks before the course of time. | KJ I.i.113 |
Then good my Liedge let me haue what is mine, | Then, good my liege, let me have what is mine, | KJ I.i.114 |
My fathers land, as was my fathers will. | My father's land, as was my father's will. | KJ I.i.115 |
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Shal then my fathers Will be of no force, | Shall then my father's will be of no force | KJ I.i.130 |
To dispossesse that childe which is not his. | To dispossess that child which is not his? | KJ I.i.131 |