Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Sal. Or do you almost thinke, although you see,
Sal. That you do see? Could thought, without this obiect
Sal. Forme such another? This is the very top,
Sal. The heighth, the Crest: or Crest vnto the Crest
Sal. Of murthers Armes: This is the bloodiest shame,
Sal. The wildest Sauagery, the vildest stroke
Sal. That euer wall‑ey'd wrath, or staring rage
Sal. Presented to the teares of soft remorse.
Pem. Pem.
Pem. All murthers past, do stand excus'd in this:
Pem. And this so sole, and so vnmatcheable,
Pem. Shall giue a holinesse, a puritie,
Pem. To the yet vnbegotten sinne of times;
Pem. And proue a deadly blood‑shed, but a iest,
Pem. Exampled by this heynous spectacle.
Bast. Bast.
Bast. It is a damned, and a bloody worke,
Bast. The gracelesse action of a heauy hand,
Bast. If that it be the worke of any hand.
Sal. Sal.