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Good Madam, stand not so inclined to trust What proves his tenderest thoughts to doubt it just, Who knows not the unbounded flood and sea, In which my brother Rolloes appetites Altar and rage with every puff and breath, His swelling blood exhales, and therefore hear, What gives my temperate bro her cause to use His readiest circumspection, and consult For remedy against all his wicked purposes; If he arm, arm, if he strew mines of treason, Meet him with countermines, it is justice st ll (For goodness sake) encounter ill with ill. Forbear base murderer. Be murdered all, but save him. He is dead, and nothing lives but death of every goodness. What will the Butcher do? I will not stir. Fill it, so I consent not, but who sooths it Consents, and who consents to tyranny, does it. He flatters thus? Good Madam hear the suit that Edith urges With such submiss beseeches; nor remain So strictly bound to sorrow for your son, That nothing else, though never so befitting, Obtains your ears, oh servation. Edith, he is forgotten, for any son Born of my mother, or to me a brother. For should we still perform our rights to him We should partake his wrongs, and as foul be In blood and damned parricide as he. And therefore tell the happy means that heaven Puts in thy hand, for all our longed for freedom From so abhorred and impious a monster. How strange she is to what she chiefly wishes? Sweet Edith be not any thought the more Discouraged in thy purpose, but assured Her heart and prayers are thine; and that we two Shall be enough to all we wish to do. Thou shalt have all my Jewels and my mother's, And thou shalt paint too, that his bloods desire May make him perish in a painted fire; Hast thou been with him yet? Thou shalt have All I can add, sweet wench, in Jewels, tires I'll be my self thy dresser, nor may I Serve my own love with a contracted husband More sweetly, nor more amply than mayest thou Thy forward will with his bewitched affections: Affects thou any personal aid of mine My noblest Edith? They are thine, my Edith, as for me, my own; For thou well knowest, if blood shed of the best Should cool and be forgotten, who would fear To shed blood still? or where (alas) were then The endless love we owe to worthy men? O, bravely done wench. My honour ever seek thee for thy justice, O 'twas a deed of high and brave adventure, A justice even for h en oh envy at, Farewell my sorrows, and my tears take truee, My O bloody Brother, Till this hour never beauteous; till thy life, Like a full sacrifice for all thy miss efes, Flowed from ri ers, never righteous: O how my eyes wish then joys how? My longing heart even leaping out for lightness, But die thy black sins with thee. I forgive thee. In all pureness, In all humility of heart and services, To the most noble Aubrey, I submit me.
Plot summary
Plot — The Bloody Brother (Rollo, Duke of Normandy)
The old Duke of Normandy has left his dukedom to be shared by his two sons, Rollo and Otto, but the brothers are mutually antagonistic. Civil war is averted by the intervention of their mother Sophia, and they agree to celebrate the new accord at a banquet. Latorch persuades Rollo to renege on the truce, but proposes to dispose of Otto by craft rather than by force, and suborns the kitchen staff preparing the banquet to poison Otto's food. At the feast, however, Otto is off his food and will not eat. Rollo pretends to take offence, claiming that Otto's reluctance is tantamount to accusing him of a poisoning attempt, and leaves the banquet. He later murders Otto in their mother's presence, and sends Latorcb to convince the citizens that he was acting in self-defence. Gisbert and Baldwin, two senior courtiers, are beheaded for refusing to abet his usurpation; a third, Aubrey, recognizes that, the murder notwithstanding, Rollo is the only legitimate heir left. Rollo makes it known that the poisoning plot was instigated by Otto, and has the caterers hanged. Rollo proves to be a tyrant who preys not only on his nobles but also his meaner subjects. Among the latter is Allan , Gisbert's servant, who is condemned to death for burying his executed master; his brother Hamond, the Duke 's Captain of the Guard, cannot persuade Rollo to spare him. Latorch asks permission to have Rollo's horoscope cast; his objective is to get the astrologers to foretell danger to the Duke's life from a courtier identifiable as Aubrey. Rollo does not wait for the results: Aubrey is delegated to carry out a task detailed in a letter, which turns out to be the supervision ofhis own execution; but Hamond will not co-operate. and Aubrey 's head remains on his shoulders. Meanwhile Rollo goes to dinner with Baldwin 's daughter Edith , ,,.ilom he covets, not knowing that she intends to murder him. Her plans are stymied when he seems to repent his misdeeds and promises reformation. Hamond, ordered to attend with the guard, does not share her scruples : he kills Rollo in revenge for the treatment of Allan _and Aubrey, and then himself. Aubrey succeeds to the dukedom, and has Latorch hanged. Edith is sent to a nunnery after she refuses to condemn Rollo 's murder.