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And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him; If I have kill'd the issue of your womb, Or in my cell there would she kill herself. Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:-- for killing him, from the which no warrant can defend me. Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous thoughts, | To bear a poison, I would temper it, |
A grave? O, no, a lanthorn, slaught'red youth, A murderer and a villain;