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Well you deserve: they well deserve to have, That know the strong’st and surest way to get.

PLAY: Richard II ACT/SCENE: 3.3 SPEAKER: King Richard II CONTEXT: HENRY BOLINGBROKE
So far be mine, my most redoubted lord,
As my true service shall deserve your love.
KING RICHARD II
Well you deserve: they well deserve to have,
That know the strong’st and surest way to get.
Uncle, give me your hands: nay, dry your eyes;
Tears show their love, but want their remedies.
Cousin, I am too young to be your father,
Though you are old enough to be my heir.
What you will have, I’ll give, and willing too;
For do we must what force will have us do.
Set on towards London, cousin, is it so? DUTCH: 0, veel verdient gij; — hij verdient te ontvangen,
Die vast en goed den weg weet om te erlangen. —
MORE:
Proverb: They that are bound must obey

Redoubted=Feared, respected (often used to address a monarch)
Want=Fail to provide (a remedy)

Compleat:
Redoubted=Geducht, ontzaglyk
Want=Gebrek Topics: proverbs and idioms, still in use, statys, remedy, merit

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