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KING HENRY 6th

(SECOND PART)
Queen Margaret & Suffolk
Act III. Scene II.

Starling sc.

My hair be fix'd on end, as one distract;

Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban:
And even now my burden'd heart would break,
Should I not curse them. Poison be their drink!
Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they taste!
Their sweetest shade, a grove of cypress trees!
Their chiefest prospect, murdering basilisks!
Their softest touch, as smart as lizards' stings!
Their music, frightful as the serpent's hiss,
And boding screech-owls make the concert full!
All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell-

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Q. Mar. Enough, sweet Suffolk; thou torment'st thyself;

And these dread curses, like the sun 'gainst glass, "Or like an overcharged gun,-recoil,

And turn the force of them upon thyself.

Suf. You bade me ban, and will you bid me leave?

Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from,
Well could I curse away a winter's night,
Though standing naked on a mountain top,
Where biting cold would never let grass grow,
And think it but a minute spent in sport.

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Q. Mar. O, let me entreat thee, cease! Give me thy hand,

"That I may dew it with my mournful tears;

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Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place,

To wash away my woful monuments.

'O, could this kiss be printed in thy hand;

[kisses his hand.

"That thou mightst think upon these by the seal,

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