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Henry VI part three

Act V, Scene 6

London. The Tower.
 
[Enter KING HENRY VI and GLOUCESTER, with the Lieutenant, on the walls]
 
GLOUCESTER
            ,         ,          ,          ,         ,
      Good day,| my lord,| what at | your book | so hard?
 
KING HENRY VI
       ,               ,         ,     2        ,     ,
      Aye my | good* lord:| my lord | I should say | rather,
            ,         ,         ,           x      ,
      'Tis sin | to flat|ter. Good | was little | better:
               ,                 ,   ,        ,       ,
      Good* Glouce|ster, and / good dev|il, were | alike,
            ,        ,     2      ,          ,           ,
      And both | prepost|erous: there|fore, not | good lord.
 
GLOUCESTER
       ,         ,          2      ,          ,        ,
      Sirrah,| leave us | to ourselves,| we must | confer.
 
[Exit Lieutenant]
 
KING HENRY VI
           ,           ,         ,         ,          ,
      So flies | the reck|less shep|herd from | the wolf:
           ,           ,         ,            ,            ,
      So first | the harm|less sheep | doth yield | his fleece,
            ,           ,        ,        ,           ,
      And next | his throat,| unto | the butch|er's knife.
             ,          ,           ,        ,        ,
      What scene | of death | hath Ros|cius now | to act?
 
GLOUCESTER
         ,        ,         ,           ,       ,
      Suspi|cion al|ways haunts | the guil|ty mind,
            ,            ,           ,        ,    ,
      The thief | doth fear | each bush | an of|ficer.
 
KING HENRY VI
            ,           ,          ,      ,       ,
      The bird | that hath | been lim|ed in | a bush,
             ,          ,          ,       ,        ,
      With trem|bling wings | misdoubt|eth ev|ery bush;
          ,        ,         ,     .  T    T     T
      And I | the hap|less male | to one sweet bird,
            ,         ,      ,       ,       ,
      Have now | the fat|al ob|ject^in | my eye,
                    ,    ,           ,            ,            ,
      Where* my / poor young | was limed,| was caught | and killed.
 
GLOUCESTER
       ,            ,         ,          ,         ,
      Why what | a peev|ish fool | was that | of Crete,
              ,          ,         ,       ,       ,
      That taught | his son | the of|fice of | a fowl,
           ,         ,          ,           ,           ,
      And yet | for all | his wings,| the fool | was drowned.
 
KING HENRY VI
         ,     ,         ,        ,    ,
      I Dae|dalus,| my poor | boy^Ic|arus,
           ,       ,        ,        ,           ,
      Thy fath|er Min|os, that | denied | our course,
           ,            ,           ,             ,    ,
      The sun | that seared | the wings of my / sweet boy.
           ,        ,        ,         ,         ,
      Thy broth|er Ed|ward, and | thyself,| the sea
             ,   2     ,          ,       ,         ,
      Whose env|ious gulf | did swal|low up | his life:
            ,         ,          ,       ,           ,
      Ah, kill | me with | thy weap|on, not | with words,
            ,          ,        ,          ,          ,
      My breast | can bet|ter brook | thy dag|ger's point,
            ,         ,          ,       ,     ,
      Than can | my ears | that trag|ic his|tory.
            ,          ,           ,      2    ,         ,
      But where|fore dost | thou come?| Is it for | my life?
 
GLOUCESTER
         T      T  T     2    ,   ,     ,
      Thinkst thou I | am an ex|ecu|tioner?
 
KING HENRY VI
          ,    ,     ,        ,          ,
      A pers|ecu|tor I | am sure | thou art,
          ,    2     ,     ,         ,   ,      ->
      If murd|ering in|nocents | be ex|ecu||ting,
       ,        2      ,        ,   ,     ,
      Why | then thou art | an ex|ecu|tioner.
 
GLOUCESTER
           ,         ,          ,         ,     ,
      Thy son | I killed | for his | presump|tion.
 
KING HENRY VI
              ,            ,            ,            ,          ,
      Hadst thou | been killed,| when first | thou didst | presume,
             ,           ,          ,       ,         ,
      Thou hadst | not lived | to kill | a son | of mine:
            ,        ,     ,         ,   2    ,       ->
      And thus | I proph|esy,| that ma|ny a thou||sand,
        ,      ,        ,         ,         2     ,
      Which | now mis|trust no | parcel | of my fear,
           ,   2    ,            ,         ,   2     x
      And ma|ny an old | man's^sigh,| and ma|ny a widow's,
           ,   2    ,         ,       ,        ,
      And ma|ny an orph|an's wat|er-stand|ing eye,
       ,                ,      ,                ,         o
      Men for | their sons,| wives for | their hus|bands,
       ,         ,           ,          ,         ___
      Orphans,| for their | parents'| timeless | death,
             ,          ,         ,       ,           ,
      Shall rue | the hour | that ev|er thou | wast born.
           ,        ,               ,        ,       ,
      The owl | shrieked at | thy birth,| an ev|il sign,
       .    T     T    T       ,        ,         ,
      The night-crow cried,| abod|ing luck|less time,
        T     T     .   T   2    ,         ,            ,
      Dogs howled, and hid|eous temp|est shook | down^trees:  ??
           ,        ,          ,         ,         ,
      The rav|en rooked | her on | the chim|ney's top,
            ,           ,        ,       ,          ,
      And chat|tering pies | in dis|mal dis|cords^sung:
           ,        ,      ,            ,          ,
      Thy moth|er felt | more than | a moth|er's pain,
           ,       T      T     T        2   ,          ,
      And yet | brought forth less | than a moth|er's hope,
          ,        ,    ,         2      ,     ,
      To wit,| an in|digest|ed and de/formed lump,
       T    T   .    T          ,        ,       ,
      Not like the fruit | of such | a good|ly tree.
        T     T     T      2      ,           ,           ,
      Teeth hadst thou | in thy head,| when thou | wast born,
          ,     ,          ,          ,          ,
      To sig|nify,| thou camst | to bite | the world:
           ,         ,         ,          ,          ,
      And if | the rest | be true,| which I | have heard,
             ,
      Thou camst--   \\
 
GLOUCESTER
             ,         ,
      I'll hear | no more:
                             ,    ,                  ,
                            Die proph/et in | thy speech,
 
[Stabs him]
            ,        ,           ,        ,        ,
      For this |(amongst | the rest)| was I | ordained.
 
KING HENRY VI
       ,      2        T    T     T        ,       ,
      Aye, and for | much more slaught|er aft|er this.
       ,        ,         ,          ,        __
      God for|give my | sins, and | pardon | thee.
 
[Dies]
 
GLOUCESTER
        ,             2  ,         ,         ,      ,
      What? Will | the aspir|ing blood | of Lan|caster
        ,    2         ,           ,           ,            ,
      Sink in the | ground? I | thought it | would have | mounted.
       ,     2       ,     ,                 T    T      T
      See how my | sword weeps / for the | poor king's death.
         ,          ,        ,         ,        ,
      O may | such pur|ple tears | be al|ways^shed
             ,            ,          ,    ,             ,
      From those | that wish | the down|fall of | our house.
       ,  2      ,          ,        ,       ,
      If any | spark of | life be | yet re|maining,
        T     T   .   T         ,        ,          ,        ->
      Down, down to hell,| and say | I sent | thee thith||er.
 
[Stabs him again]
      ,       2      ,        ,       ,          ,
      I | that have neith|er pi|ty, love,| nor fear,
          ,          ,          ,       ,        ,
      Indeed |'tis true | that Hen|ry told | me of:
          ,         ,       ,         ,       ,
      For I | have of|ten heard | my moth|er say,
          ,     ,  2        ,               ,     ,
      I came | into the | world with | my legs | forward.
          ,        ,         ,                ,    ,
      Had I | not reas|on (think | ye) to / make haste,
            ,           ,      ,        ,           ,
      And seek | their ru|in that | usurped | our right?
           ,    ,    ,                   ,       ,
      The mid|wife wond/ered, and | the wom|en cried
         ,       ,          ,        ,           ,
      O Jes|us bless | us, he | is born | with teeth,
           ,      ,            ,       ,      ,
      And so | I was,| which plain|ly sig|nified,
           ,            ,           ,          ,         ,
      That I | should snarl,| and bite,| and play | the dog:
             ,            x              ,         ,     ,
      Then since | the heavens | have shaped | my bo|dy so,
            ,            ,           ,        ,       ,
      Let^hell | make^crooked | my mind | to ans|wer it.
          ,         ,        2       ,   ,     ,
      I have | no broth|er, I am / like no | brother:
                   ,     ,            ,    T      T   .  T
      And this / word (love)| which gray|beards call divine,
       ,  ,    2         ,         ,      ,
      Be res/ident in | men like^|one a|nother,    ??
           ,        ,   ,          ,       ,
      And not | in me:| I am | myself | alone.
       ,             ,            ,          ,          ,
      Clarence | beware,| thou keepst | me from | the light,
          ,          ,        ,      ,          ,
      But I | will sort | a pitch|y day | for thee:
          ,          ,       ,           ,       ,
      For I | will buzz | abroad | such proph|ecies,
            ,        ,          ,       ,         ,
      That Ed|ward shall | be fear|ful of | his life,
            ,         ,           ,          ,         ,
      And then | to purge | his fear,| I'll be | thy death.
            ,      ,           ,          ,          ,
      King^Hen|ry and | the prince | his son | are gone,
       ,               ,         ,          ,          ,
      Clarence | thy turn | is next,| and then | the rest,
        ,            ,         ,         ,        ,
      Counting | myself | but bad,| till I | be best.
             ,          ,     ,     ,        ,
      I'll throw | thy bo|dy in | anoth|er room,
           ,        ,       ,        ,         ,
      And tri|umph Hen|ry, in | thy day | of doom.
 
[Exit, with the body]

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