Reading The Tragedy of Richard the Third — William Shakespeare

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Anne.

Set downe, set downe your honourable load,

If Honor may be shrowded in a Herse;

Whil'st I a‑while obsequiously lament

Th'vntimely fall of Vertuous Lancaster.

Poore key‑cold figure of a holy King,

Pale Ashes of the House of Lancaster;

Thou bloodlesse Remnant of that Royall Blood,

Be it lawfull that I inuocate thy Ghost,

To heare the Lamentations of poore Anne,

Wife to thy Edward, to thy slaughtred Sonne,

Stab'd by the selfesame hand that made these wounds.

Loe, in these windowes that let forth thy life,

I powre the helplesse Balme of my poore eyes.

O cursed be the hand that made these holes:

Cursed the Heart, that had the heart to do it:

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