Chapter 3 of 21 · 94 words · ~1 min read

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