C. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth

Act III. Scene I.

"The Play's The Thing" from "In A Foreign Town"

"There is a history in all men’s lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceas’d;
The which observ’d, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life,
which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.
Such things become the hatch and brood of time."