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GLOUCESTER:
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By such despair, I should accuse myself.
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LADY ANNE:
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And, by despairing, shouldst thou stand excused;
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For doing worthy vengeance on thyself,
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Which didst unworthy slaughter upon others.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Say that I slew them not?
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LADY ANNE:
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Why, then they are not dead:
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But dead they are, and devilish slave, by thee.
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GLOUCESTER:
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I did not kill your husband.
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LADY ANNE:
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Why, then he is alive.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward's hand.
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LADY ANNE:
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In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw
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Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood;
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The which thou once didst bend against her breast,
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But that thy brothers beat aside the point.
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GLOUCESTER:
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I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,
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which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.
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LADY ANNE:
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Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind.
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Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries:
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Didst thou not kill this king?
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GLOUCESTER:
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I grant ye.
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LADY ANNE:
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Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too
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Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!
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O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!
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GLOUCESTER:
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The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.
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LADY ANNE:
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He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Let him thank me, that holp to send him thither;
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For he was fitter for that place than earth.
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LADY ANNE:
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And thou unfit for any place but hell.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.
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LADY ANNE:
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Some dungeon.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Your bed-chamber.
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LADY ANNE:
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I'll rest betide the chamber where thou liest!
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GLOUCESTER:
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So will it, madam till I lie with you.
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LADY ANNE:
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I hope so.
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GLOUCESTER:
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I know so. But, gentle Lady Anne,
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To leave this keen encounter of our wits,
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And fall somewhat into a slower method,
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Is not the causer of the timeless deaths
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Of these Plantagenets, Henry and Edward,
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As blameful as the executioner?
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LADY ANNE:
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Thou art the cause, and most accursed effect.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Your beauty was the cause of that effect;
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Your beauty: which did haunt me in my sleep
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To undertake the death of all the world,
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So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.
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LADY ANNE:
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If I thought that, I tell thee, homicide,
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These nails should rend that beauty from my cheeks.
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