King John by William Shakespeare
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page 20 of 110 (18%)
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Infortunate in nothing but in thee:
Thy sinnes are visited in this poore childe, The Canon of the Law is laide on him, Being but the second generation Remoued from thy sinne-conceiuing wombe Iohn. Bedlam haue done Con. I haue but this to say, That he is not onely plagued for her sin, But God hath made her sinne and her, the plague On this remoued issue, plagued for her, And with her plague her sinne: his iniury Her iniurie the Beadle to her sinne, All punish'd in the person of this childe, And all for her, a plague vpon her Que. Thou vnaduised scold, I can produce A Will, that barres the title of thy sonne Con. I who doubts that, a Will: a wicked will, A womans will, a cankred Grandams will Fra. Peace Lady, pause, or be more temperate, It ill beseemes this presence to cry ayme To these ill-tuned repetitions: Some Trumpet summon hither to the walles These men of Angiers, let vs heare them speake, Whose title they admit, Arthurs or Iohns. |
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