Reading The life and death of King Richard the Second

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Rich.

Must I doe so? and must I rauell out

My weau'd‑vp follyes? Gentle Northumberland,

If thy Offences were vpon Record,

Would it not shame thee, in so faire a troupe,

To reade a Lecture of them? If thou would'st,

There should'st thou finde one heynous Article,

Contayning the deposing of a King,

And cracking the strong Warrant of an Oath,

Mark'd with a Blot, damn'd in the Booke of Heauen.

Nay, all of you, that stand and looke vpon me,

Whil'st that my wretchednesse doth bait my selfe,

Though some of you, with Pilate, wash your hands,

Shewing an outward pittie: yet you Pilates

Haue here deliuer'd me to my sowre Crosse,

And Water cannot wash away your sinne.

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