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But this refus'd, the king, with wrath incens'd,

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Rage against fury doth with speed prepare:

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And "O," saith he, "though I could have dispens'd

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With this day's blood, which I have sought to spare

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That greater glory might have recompens'd

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The forward worth of these that so much dare,

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That we might honor had by th'overthrown

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That th'wounds we make, might not have been our own.