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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere
The Dramatick Writings of Will Shakspere Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: There shall your swords and lances arbitrate The swelling difference of your settled hate ; Since we cannot atone you, you shall sec Justice decide the ... more »victor's chivalry— Lord marshal, command our officers at arms Be ready to direct these home-alarms' [Exeunt, SCENE //. The Duke /lancaster' Palace. Enter Gaunt, and Dutchess of Gloster. Gaunt. Alas! the part I had in Gloster'sblood f Doth more solicit me, than your exclaims, To stir against the butchers of his life. 2 to But, since correction lieth in those hands, Which made the fault that we cannot correct, Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven; Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth, Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads. Dutch. Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? Hath love in thy old blood no living fire ? Edward's seven sons, whereof thyself art one, s Where as seven phials of his sacred blood, I On seven fair branches, springing from one root: 2,20 Some of those seven are dryM by nature's course, jSome of those branches by the destinies cut: But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my Gloster— | One phial full of Edward's sacred blood, One flourishing branch of his most royal root— Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt ; Is hack'd down, and his summer leaves all faded. By envy's hand, and murder's bloody axe. Ah, Gaunt! his blood was thine ; that bed, that womb, That metal, that self-mould, that fashion'd thee, 230 Made him a man ; and though thou liv'st, and breath' st, Yet art thou slain in him : thou dost consent In some large measure to thy father's death, In that thou seest thy wretched brother die, Who was the model of thy father's life. Call it not patience, Gaunt, it is despair: In suffering thus thy brother to be slaughter'd, Thou shew'st...« less