Shakspere's Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays ComparedLongmans, Green, 1896 - 532 pages |
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Page 237 - ... representing the king, which by their sorcerie by little and little consumed ; intending thereby in conclusion to waste and destroie the kings person.