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It will not be avoided but by this.
Therefore, dear mother - I must call you so -
Be the attorney of my love to her;
Plead what I will be, not what I have been;
Not my deserts, but what I will deserve. [415]
Urge the necessity and state of times,
And be not peevish found in great designs.
ELIZABET H
Shall I be tempted of the devil thus?
KING RICHARD
Ay, if the devil tempt you to do good.
ELIZABET H
Shall I forget myself to be myself? [420]
KING RICHARD
Ay, if your self’s remembrance wrong yourself.
ELIZABET H
Yet thou didst kill my children.
KING RICHARD
But in your daughter’s womb I bury them,
Where, in that nest of spicery, they will breed
Selves of themselves, to your recomforture. [425]
ELIZABET H
Shall I go win my daughter to thy will?
KING RICHARD
And be a happy mother by the deed.
ELIZABET H
I go. Write to me very shortly,
And you shall understand from me her mind.
KING RICHARD
