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King Henry the Sixth, III. ii

And think it but a minute spent in sport.

Queen. O! let me entreat thee, cease! Give me thy hand,

That I may dew it with my mournful tears;

Nor let the rain of heaven wet this place,

To wash away my woeful monuments.

O! could this kiss be printed in thy hand,

[Kisses his hand.]

That thou might'st think upon these by the seal,

Through whom a thousand sighs are breath'd for thee.

So, get thee gone, that I may know my grief;

'Tis but surmis'd whiles thou art standing by,

As one that surfeits thinking on a want.

I will repeal thee, or, be well assur'd,

Adventure to be banished myself;

And banished I am, if but from thee.

Go; speak not to me; even now be gone.

O! go not yet. Even thus two friends condemn'd

Embrace and kiss, and take ten thousand leaves,

Loather a hundred times to part than die.

Yet now farewell; and farewell life with thee!

Suf. Thus is poor Suffolk ten times banished,

Once by the king, and three times thrice by thee.

'Tis not the land I care for, wert thou thence;

A wilderness is populous enough,

So Suffolk had thy heavenly company:

For where thou art, there is the world itself,

With every several pleasure in the world,

And where thou art not, desolation.

I can no more: live thou to joy thy life;

Myself to joy in nought but that thou liv'st.

 342 woeful monuments: marks of woe (tear stains)

344 seal: impression of her lips; cf. n.

348 As when a glutton thinks of famine

349 repeal thee: secure your recall

350 Adventure: risk 