Who wrote "Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown." ?


In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1, the king has a soliloquy. It begins, "How many thousand of my poorest subjects / Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, . . ." At the end, he declares, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."

Who wrote "Heavy hangs the head that wears the crown." ? Tuesday, April 15, 2014 @ 10:14pm

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