Early Modern Drama · Character Archetypes

SON

in 3 Henry the Sixth — Shakespeare, William

Metadata

Play3 Henry the Sixth
AuthorShakespeare, William
Year (catalogued)1591
Decade1590s
Speech prefix(es)Son.
Words191
Characters960
Typicality0.57 (cosine to cluster centroid)
TCP idA11954.22
ClusterCluster 10 — Mourners, mothers & doleful voices

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Ill blows the wind that profits no body, This man whom hand to hand I slew in fight, May be possessed with some store of Crowns, And I that (haply) take them from him now, May yet (ere night) yield both my Life and them To some man else, as this dead man does me. Who's this? O God! It is my Father's face, Whom in this Conflict, I (unwares) have killed: O heavy times! begetting such Events. From London, by the King was I pressed forth, My Father being the Earl of Warwick's man, Came on the partly of York, pressed by his Master: And I, who at his hands received my life, Have by my hands, of Life bereaved him. Pardon me God, I knew not what I did: And pardon Father, for I knew not thee. My Tears shall wipe away these bloody marks: And no more words, till they have flowed their fill. How will my Mother, for a Father's death Take on with me, and never be satisfied? Was ever son, so rued a Father's death? I'll bear thee hence, where I may weep my fill.