King John by William Shakespeare
page 71 of 137 (51%)
page 71 of 137 (51%)
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Which scorns a modern invocation.
PANDULPH. Lady, you utter madness, and not sorrow. CONSTANCE. Thou art not holy to belie me so; I am not mad: this hair I tear is mine; My name is Constance; I was Geffrey's wife; Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost: I am not mad:--I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself: O, if I could, what grief should I forget!-- Preach some philosophy to make me mad, And thou shalt be canoniz'd, cardinal; For, being not mad, but sensible of grief, My reasonable part produces reason How I may be deliver'd of these woes, And teaches me to kill or hang myself: If I were mad I should forget my son, Or madly think a babe of clouts were he: I am not mad; too well, too well I feel The different plague of each calamity. KING PHILIP. Bind up those tresses.--O, what love I note In the fair multitude of those her hairs! Where but by a chance a silver drop hath fallen, Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends Do glue themselves in sociable grief; |
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