King Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare
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And will you pale your head in Henry's glory,
And rob his temples of the diadem, Now in his life, against your holy oath? O, 't is a fault too too unpardonable.-- Off with the crown, and with the crown his head! And whilst we breathe take time to do him dead. CLIFFORD. That is my office, for my father's sake. QUEEN MARGARET. Nay, stay; let's hear the orisons he makes. YORK. She-wolf of France, but worse than wolves of France, Whose tongue more poisons than the adder's tooth, How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex To triumph, like an Amazonian trull, Upon their woes whom fortune captivates! But that thy face is, vizard-like, unchanging, Made impudent with use of evil deeds, I would assay, proud queen, to make thee blush. To tell thee whence thou cam'st, of whom deriv'd, Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless. Thy father bears the type of King of Naples, Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem, Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman. Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult? It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud queen; |
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