GLOUCESTER Say that I slew them not?
LADY ANNE Why, then they are not dead:
But dead they are, and devilish slave, by thee.
GLOUCESTER I did not kill your husband.
LADY ANNE Why, then he is alive.
GLOUCESTER Nay, he is dead; and slain by Edward's hand.
LADY ANNE In thy foul throat thou liest: Queen Margaret saw
Thy murderous falchion smoking in his blood;
The which thou once didst bend against her breast,
But that thy brothers beat aside the point.
GLOUCESTER I was provoked by her slanderous tongue,
which laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders.
LADY ANNE Thou wast provoked by thy bloody mind.
Which never dreamt on aught but butcheries:
Didst thou not kill this king?
GLOUCESTER I grant ye.
LADY ANNE Dost grant me, hedgehog? then, God grant me too
Thou mayst be damned for that wicked deed!
O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous!
GLOUCESTER The fitter for the King of heaven, that hath him.
LADY ANNE He is in heaven, where thou shalt never come.
GLOUCESTER Let him thank me, that holp to send him thither;
For he was fitter for that place than earth.
LADY ANNE And thou unfit for any place but hell.
GLOUCESTER Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it.
LADY ANNE Some dungeon.
GLOUCESTER Your bed-chamber.
LADY ANNE I'll rest betide the chamber where thou liest!
GLOUCESTER So will it, madam till I lie with you.
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