Whose chronicle thus writ: “The man was noble,
But with his last attempt he wiped it out:
Destroy’d his country, and his name remains
To the ensuing age abhorr’d.”
(V. iii. 140.)
She feels, as well she may, that she is basing her plea on eternal right, and is willing to stake her success on the irresistible truth of her argument.
Say my request’s unjust,
And spurn me back: but if it be not so,
Thou art not honest.
(V. iii. 164.)