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Exit BRAKENBURY and KEEPER
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BRAKENBURY and the KEEPER exit.
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SECOND MURDERER What, shall I stab him as he sleeps?
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SECOND MURDERER What, should I stab him while he sleeps?
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FIRST MURDERER
100No. He’ll say ’twas done cowardly, when he wakes.
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FIRST MURDERER No. When he wakes up, he’ll say we killed him like cowards.
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SECOND MURDERER Why, he shall never wake until the great Judgment Day.
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SECOND MURDERER When he wakes up! Why, he won’t wake up till Judgment Day.
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FIRST MURDERER Why, then he’ll say we stabbed him sleeping.
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FIRST MURDERER Okay, so that’s when he’ll say we stabbed him in his sleep.
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SECOND MURDERER The urging of that word “judgment” hath bred a kind of
remorse in me.
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SECOND MURDERER That word “judgment” makes me feel a bit guilty.
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FIRST MURDERER
105What, art thou afraid?
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FIRST MURDERER What, are you afraid?
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SECOND MURDERER Not to kill him, having a warrant, but to be damned for
killing him, from the which no warrant can defend me.
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SECOND MURDERER Not of killing him, because I have a warrant for it, but of being damned for killing him, which no warrant can protect me from.
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FIRST MURDERER I thought thou hadst been resolute.
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FIRST MURDERER I thought you were resolved to do this.
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SECOND MURDERER So I am—to let him live.
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SECOND MURDERER I am resolved—to let him live.
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FIRST MURDERER
110I’ll back to the duke of Gloucester and tell him so.
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FIRST MURDERER I’ll go back to the duke of Gloucester and tell him so.
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SECOND MURDERER Nay, I prithee stay a little. I hope this passionate humor of
mine will change. It was wont to hold me but while one tells
twenty.
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SECOND MURDERER Please, just wait a minute. I’m hoping my holy mood will pass. It usually only lasts about twenty seconds.
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FIRST MURDERER How dost thou feel thyself now?
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FIRST MURDERER How are you feeling now?
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SECOND MURDERER
115Faith, some certain dregs of conscience are yet within me.
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SECOND MURDERER Actually, I’m still feeling some pangs of conscience.
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