Part II
., Act iii. 2, Warwick's speech:--
"Who finds the heifer dead, and bleeding fresh, And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?"
or Suffolk's to Margaret:--
"If I depart from thee, I cannot live; And in thy sight to die, what were it else, But like a pleasant slumber in thy lap? Here could I breathe my soul into the air, As mild and gentle as the cradle-babe, Dying with mother's dug between its lips."
Most Shakespearian, too, is the manner in which, in