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KING JOHAN
[DRAMATIS PERSONAE
King John
England, a widow
Nobility
Clergy
Civil Order
Commonalty
Sedition (alias Stephen Langton)
Dissimulation (alias Simon Of Swynsett)
Usurped Power (alias Pope Innocent III)
Private Wealth (alias Cardinal Pandulphus)
Treason, a priest
Verity
lmperial MajeSty
The Interpreter]
[ACTI]
[Enter king John and England.]
K.John. To declare the powres and their force to (p.I,fol.I)
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The scriptur of God doth flow in most abowndaunce;
And of sophysteres the cauteles to dyscharge
Bothe Peter and Pawle makyth plenteosse vtterauns;
How that all pepell shuld shew there trew alegyauns
To ther lawfull kyng Christ Iesu dothe consent,
Whych to $e hygh powres was evere obedyent.
To shew what I am I thynke yt convenyent.
Iohn kyng of Ynglond be cronyclys doth m . . .
