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Foul wrinkled witch, what makest thou in my sight?
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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But repetition of what thou hast marr'd;
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That will I make before I let thee go.
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GLOUCESTER:
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Wert thou not banished on pain of death?
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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I was; but I do find more pain in banishment
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Than death can yield me here by my abode.
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A husband and a son thou owest to me;
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And thou a kingdom; all of you allegiance:
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The sorrow that I have, by right is yours,
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And all the pleasures you usurp are mine.
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GLOUCESTER:
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The curse my noble father laid on thee,
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When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper
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And with thy scorns drew'st rivers from his eyes,
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And then, to dry them, gavest the duke a clout
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Steep'd in the faultless blood of pretty Rutland--
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His curses, then from bitterness of soul
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Denounced against thee, are all fall'n upon thee;
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And God, not we, hath plagued thy bloody deed.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH:
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So just is God, to right the innocent.
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HASTINGS:
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O, 'twas the foulest deed to slay that babe,
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And the most merciless that e'er was heard of!
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RIVERS:
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Tyrants themselves wept when it was reported.
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DORSET:
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No man but prophesied revenge for it.
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BUCKINGHAM:
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Northumberland, then present, wept to see it.
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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What were you snarling all before I came,
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Ready to catch each other by the throat,
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And turn you all your hatred now on me?
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Did York's dread curse prevail so much with heaven?
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That Henry's death, my lovely Edward's death,
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Their kingdom's loss, my woful banishment,
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Could all but answer for that peevish brat?
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Can curses pierce the clouds and enter heaven?
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Why, then, give way, dull clouds, to my quick curses!
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If not by war, by surfeit die your king,
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As ours by murder, to make him a king!
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Edward thy son, which now is Prince of Wales,
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For Edward my son, which was Prince of Wales,
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Die in his youth by like untimely violence!
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Thyself a queen, for me that was a queen,
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Outlive thy glory, like my wretched self!
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Long mayst thou live to wail thy children's loss;
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And see another, as I see thee now,
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Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine!
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Long die thy happy days before thy death;
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And, after many lengthen'd hours of grief,
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Die neither mother, wife, nor England's queen!
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Rivers and Dorset, you were standers by,
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And so wast thou, Lord Hastings, when my son
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Was stabb'd with bloody daggers: God, I pray him,
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That none of you may live your natural age,
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But by some unlook'd accident cut off!
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GLOUCESTER:
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Have done thy charm, thou hateful wither'd hag!
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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And leave out thee? stay, dog, for thou shalt hear me.
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If heaven have any grievous plague in store
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Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee,
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O, let them keep it till thy sins be ripe,
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And then hurl down their indignation
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On thee, the troubler of the poor world's peace!
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The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!
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Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou livest,
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And take deep traitors for thy dearest friends!
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No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine,
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Unless it be whilst some tormenting dream
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Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils!
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Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog!
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Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity
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The slave of nature and the son of hell!
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Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb!
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Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!
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Thou rag of honour! thou detested--
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GLOUCESTER:
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Margaret.
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QUEEN MARGARET:
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Richard!
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