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CLARENCE:
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I shall be reconciled to him again.
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Second Murderer:
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Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die.
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CLARENCE:
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Are you call'd forth from out a world of men
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To slay the innocent? What is my offence?
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Where are the evidence that do accuse me?
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What lawful quest have given their verdict up
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Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced
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The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death?
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Before I be convict by course of law,
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To threaten me with death is most unlawful.
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I charge you, as you hope to have redemption
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By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,
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That you depart and lay no hands on me
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The deed you undertake is damnable.
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First Murderer:
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What we will do, we do upon command.
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Second Murderer:
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And he that hath commanded is the king.
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CLARENCE:
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Erroneous vassal! the great King of kings
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Hath in the tables of his law commanded
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That thou shalt do no murder: and wilt thou, then,
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Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's?
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Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hands,
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To hurl upon their heads that break his law.
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Second Murderer:
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And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,
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For false forswearing and for murder too:
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Thou didst receive the holy sacrament,
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To fight in quarrel of the house of Lancaster.
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First Murderer:
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And, like a traitor to the name of God,
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Didst break that vow; and with thy treacherous blade
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Unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son.
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Second Murderer:
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Whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend.
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First Murderer:
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How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,
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When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?
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CLARENCE:
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Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?
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For Edward, for my brother, for his sake: Why, sirs,
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He sends ye not to murder me for this
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For in this sin he is as deep as I.
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If God will be revenged for this deed.
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O, know you yet, he doth it publicly,
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Take not the quarrel from his powerful arm;
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He needs no indirect nor lawless course
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To cut off those that have offended him.
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First Murderer:
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Who made thee, then, a bloody minister,
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When gallant-springing brave Plantagenet,
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That princely novice, was struck dead by thee?
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CLARENCE:
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My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.
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First Murderer:
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Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault,
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Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee.
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CLARENCE:
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Oh, if you love my brother, hate not me;
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I am his brother, and I love him well.
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If you be hired for meed, go back again,
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And I will send you to my brother Gloucester,
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Who shall reward you better for my life
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Than Edward will for tidings of my death.
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Second Murderer:
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You are deceived, your brother Gloucester hates you.
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CLARENCE:
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O, no, he loves me, and he holds me dear:
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Go you to him from me.
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Both:
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Ay, so we will.
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CLARENCE:
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Tell him, when that our princely father York
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Bless'd his three sons with his victorious arm,
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And charged us from his soul to love each other,
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He little thought of this divided friendship:
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Bid Gloucester think of this, and he will weep.
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