Speeches (Lines) for First Murderer
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We are, my lord; and come to have the warrant
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Tush!
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3 |
We will, my noble lord. |
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4 |
Ho! who's here? |
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5 |
I would speak with Clarence, and I came hither on my legs. |
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6 |
Do so, it is a point of wisdom: fare you well. |
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No; then he will say 'twas done cowardly, when he wakes. |
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8 |
Why, then he will say we stabbed him sleeping. |
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What, art thou afraid? |
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10 |
I thought thou hadst been resolute. |
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11 |
Back to the Duke of Gloucester, tell him so. |
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12 |
How dost thou feel thyself now? |
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13 |
Remember our reward, when the deed is done. |
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14 |
Where is thy conscience now? |
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15 |
So when he opens his purse to give us our reward,
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How if it come to thee again? |
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17 |
'Zounds, it is even now at my elbow, persuading me
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18 |
Tut, I am strong-framed, he cannot prevail with me,
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19 |
Take him over the costard with the hilts of thy
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20 |
Hark! he stirs: shall I strike? |
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21 |
Offended us you have not, but the king. |
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22 |
What we will do, we do upon command. |
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23 |
And, like a traitor to the name of God,
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24 |
How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us,
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25 |
Who made thee, then, a bloody minister,
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26 |
Thy brother's love, our duty, and thy fault,
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27 |
Ay, millstones; as be lesson'd us to weep. |
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28 |
Right,
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29 |
Make peace with God, for you must die, my lord. |
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30 |
Relent! 'tis cowardly and womanish. |
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31 |
Take that, and that: if all this will not do,
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32 |
How now! what mean'st thou, that thou help'st me not?
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33 |
So do not I: go, coward as thou art.
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