Richard III by William Shakespeare
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Then death can yeeld me here, by my abode.
A Husband and a Sonne thou ow'st to me, And thou a Kingdome; all of you, allegeance: This Sorrow that I haue, by right is yours, And all the Pleasures you vsurpe, are mine Rich. The Curse my Noble Father layd on thee, When thou didst Crown his Warlike Brows with Paper, And with thy scornes drew'st Riuers from his eyes, And then to dry them, gau'st the Duke a Clowt, Steep'd in the faultlesse blood of prettie Rutland: His Curses then, from bitternesse of Soule, Denounc'd against thee, are all falne vpon thee: And God, not we, hath plagu'd thy bloody deed Qu. So iust is God, to right the innocent Hast. O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that Babe, And the most mercilesse, that ere was heard of Riu. Tyrants themselues wept when it was reported Dors. No man but prophecied reuenge for it Buck. Northumberland, then present, wept to see it Q.M. What? were you snarling all before I came, Ready to catch each other by the throat, And turne you all your hatred now on me? Did Yorkes dread Curse preuaile so much with Heauen, |
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