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When care, mistrust, and treason waits on him. |
Son: |
Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. |
This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight, |
May be possessed with some store of crowns; |
And I, that haply take them from him now, |
May yet ere night yield both my life and them |
To some man else, as this dead man doth me. |
Who's this? O God! it is my father's face, |
Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill'd. |
O heavy times, begetting such events! |
From London by the king was I press'd forth; |
My father, being the Earl of Warwick's man, |
Came on the part of York, press'd by his master; |
And I, who at his hands received my life, him |
Have by my hands of life bereaved him. |
Pardon me, God, I knew not what I did! |
And pardon, father, for I knew not thee! |
My tears shall wipe away these bloody marks; |
And no more words till they have flow'd their fill. |
KING HENRY VI: |
O piteous spectacle! O bloody times! |
Whiles lions war and battle for their dens, |
Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity. |
Weep, wretched man, I'll aid thee tear for tear; |
And let our hearts and eyes, like civil war, |
Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharged with grief. |
Father: |
Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, |
Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold: |
For I have bought it with an hundred blows. |
But let me see: is this our foeman's face? |
Ah, no, no, no, it is mine only son! |
Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee, |
Throw up thine eye! see, see what showers arise, |
Blown with the windy tempest of my heart, |
Upon thy words, that kill mine eye and heart! |
O, pity, God, this miserable age! |
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, |
Erroneous, mutinous and unnatural, |
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! |
O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon, |
And hath bereft thee of thy life too late! |
KING HENRY VI: |
Woe above woe! grief more than common grief! |
O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds! |
O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity! |
The red rose and the white are on his face, |
The fatal colours of our striving houses: |
The one his purple blood right well resembles; |
The other his pale cheeks, methinks, presenteth: |
Wither one rose, and let the other flourish; |
If you contend, a thousand lives must wither. |
Son: |
How will my mother for a father's death |
Take on with me and ne'er be satisfied! |
Father: |
How will my wife for slaughter of my son |
Shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied! |
KING HENRY VI: |
How will the country for these woful chances |
Misthink the king and not be satisfied! |
Son: |
Was ever son so rued a father's death? |
Father: |
Was ever father so bemoan'd his son? |
KING HENRY VI: |
Was ever king so grieved for subjects' woe? |
Much is your sorrow; mine ten times so much. |
Son: |
I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill. |
Father: |
These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet; |
My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre, |
For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go; |
My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell; |
And so obsequious will thy father be, |
Even for the loss of thee, having no more, |
As Priam was for all his valiant sons. |
I'll bear thee hence; and let them fight that will, |
For I have murdered where I should not kill. |
KING HENRY VI: |
Sad-hearted men, much overgone with care, |
Here sits a king more woful than you are. |
PRINCE EDWARD: |
Fly, father, fly! for all your friends are fled, |
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