Reading The first part of King Henry the Sixt — William Shakespeare

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Talb.

Bring forth the Body of old Salisbury,

And here aduance it in the Market‑Place,

The middle Centure of this cursed Towne.

Now haue I pay'd my Vow vnto his Soule:

For euery drop of blood was drawne from him,

There hath at least fiue Frenchmen dyed to night.

And that hereafter Ages may behold

What ruine happened in reuenge of him,

Within their chiefest Temple Ile erect

A Tombe, wherein his Corps shall be interr'd:

Vpon the which, that euery one may reade,

Shall be engrau'd the sacke of Orleance,

The trecherous manner of his mournefull death,

And what a terror he had beene to France.

But Lords, in all our bloudy Massacre,

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