History of Henry VI, Part III (role extract)

History of Henry VI, Part III

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Father. Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me,	2.5.79
Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold:	2.5.80
For I have bought it with an hundred blows.	2.5.81
But let me see: is this our foeman's face?	2.5.82
Ah, no, no, no, it is mine only son!	2.5.83
Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee,	2.5.84
Throw up thine eye! see, see what showers arise,	2.5.85
Blown with the windy tempest of my heart,	2.5.86
Upon thy words, that kill mine eye and heart!	2.5.87
O, pity, God, this miserable age!	2.5.88
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly,	2.5.89
Erroneous, mutinous and unnatural,	2.5.90
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget!	2.5.91
O boy, thy father gave thee life too soon,	2.5.92
And hath bereft thee of thy life too late!	2.5.93
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Father. How will my wife for slaughter of my son	2.5.105
Shed seas of tears and ne'er be satisfied!	2.5.106
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Father. Was ever father so bemoan'd his son?	2.5.110
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Father. These arms of mine shall be thy winding-sheet;	2.5.114
My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre,	2.5.115
For from my heart thine image ne'er shall go;	2.5.116
My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell;	2.5.117
And so obsequious will thy father be,	2.5.118
Even for the loss of thee, having no more,	2.5.119
As Priam was for all his valiant sons.	2.5.120
I'll bear thee hence; and let them fight that will,	2.5.121
For I have murdered where I should not kill.	2.5.122
Exit with the body
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