Sir Thomas More by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)
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To slip him like a hound. Say now the king
(As he is clement, if th' offender mourn) Should so much come to short of your great trespass As but to banish you, whether would you go? What country, by the nature of your error, Should give you harbor? go you to France or Flanders, To any German province, to Spain or Portugal, Nay, any where that not adheres to England,-- Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased To find a nation of such barbarous temper, That, breaking out in hideous violence, Would not afford you an abode on earth, Whet their detested knives against your throats, Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God Owed not nor made not you, nor that the claimants Were not all appropriate to your comforts, But chartered unto them, what would you think To be thus used? this is the strangers case; And this your mountanish inhumanity. ALL. Faith, a says true: let's do as we may be done to. LINCOLN. We'll be ruled by you, Master More, if you'll stand our friend to procure our pardon. MORE. Submit you to these noble gentlemen, Entreat their mediation to the king, |
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