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That makes us wretched by the death of thee, |
Than I can wish to adders, spiders, toads, |
Or any creeping venom'd thing that lives! |
If ever he have child, abortive be it, |
Prodigious, and untimely brought to light, |
Whose ugly and unnatural aspect |
May fright the hopeful mother at the view; |
And that be heir to his unhappiness! |
If ever he have wife, let her he made |
A miserable by the death of him |
As I am made by my poor lord and thee! |
Come, now towards Chertsey with your holy load, |
Taken from Paul's to be interred there; |
And still, as you are weary of the weight, |
Rest you, whiles I lament King Henry's corse. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Stay, you that bear the corse, and set it down. |
LADY ANNE: |
What black magician conjures up this fiend, |
To stop devoted charitable deeds? |
GLOUCESTER: |
Villains, set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul, |
I'll make a corse of him that disobeys. |
Gentleman: |
My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Unmanner'd dog! stand thou, when I command: |
Advance thy halbert higher than my breast, |
Or, by Saint Paul, I'll strike thee to my foot, |
And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness. |
LADY ANNE: |
What, do you tremble? are you all afraid? |
Alas, I blame you not; for you are mortal, |
And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil. |
Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell! |
Thou hadst but power over his mortal body, |
His soul thou canst not have; therefore be gone. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Sweet saint, for charity, be not so curst. |
LADY ANNE: |
Foul devil, for God's sake, hence, and trouble us not; |
For thou hast made the happy earth thy hell, |
Fill'd it with cursing cries and deep exclaims. |
If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, |
Behold this pattern of thy butcheries. |
O, gentlemen, see, see! dead Henry's wounds |
Open their congeal'd mouths and bleed afresh! |
Blush, Blush, thou lump of foul deformity; |
For 'tis thy presence that exhales this blood |
From cold and empty veins, where no blood dwells; |
Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural, |
Provokes this deluge most unnatural. |
O God, which this blood madest, revenge his death! |
O earth, which this blood drink'st revenge his death! |
Either heaven with lightning strike the |
murderer dead, |
Or earth, gape open wide and eat him quick, |
As thou dost swallow up this good king's blood |
Which his hell-govern'd arm hath butchered! |
GLOUCESTER: |
Lady, you know no rules of charity, |
Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. |
LADY ANNE: |
Villain, thou know'st no law of God nor man: |
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. |
GLOUCESTER: |
But I know none, and therefore am no beast. |
LADY ANNE: |
O wonderful, when devils tell the truth! |
GLOUCESTER: |
More wonderful, when angels are so angry. |
Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman, |
Of these supposed-evils, to give me leave, |
By circumstance, but to acquit myself. |
LADY ANNE: |
Vouchsafe, defused infection of a man, |
For these known evils, but to give me leave, |
By circumstance, to curse thy cursed self. |
GLOUCESTER: |
Fairer than tongue can name thee, let me have |
Some patient leisure to excuse myself. |
LADY ANNE: |
Fouler than heart can think thee, thou canst make |
No excuse current, but to hang thyself. |
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