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“I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.”

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Prince Hal is answering his father's complaint that he is unfit to be a king. The joke is the comparison to the biblical Job, who had every reason for patience and is being asked to endure imprisonment instead.

Source: Henry IV, Part 2, Act 1, Scene 2

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