Becket and other plays by Alfred Lord Tennyson
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BECKET.
Mock me not. I am not even a monk. Thy jest--no more. Why--look--is this a sleeve For an archbishop? HENRY. But the arm within Is Becket's, who hath beaten down my foes. BECKET. A soldier's, not a spiritual arm. HENRY. I lack a spiritual soldier, Thomas-- A man of this world and the next to boot. BECKET. There's Gilbert Foliot. HENRY. He! too thin, too thin. Thou art the man to fill out the Church robe; Your Foliot fasts and fawns too much for me. BECKET. Roger of York. HENRY. Roger is Roger of York. King, Church, and State to him but foils wherein |
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