Didst break that vow; and with thy treacherous blade

[♦] Unrip’dst the bowels of thy sovereign’s son.

[♦] Sec. Murd. Whom thou wert sworn to cherish and defend.

First Murd. How canst thou urge God’s dreadful law to us,

[205] When thou hast broke it in so dear degree?

Clar. Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed?

For Edward, for my brother, for his sake:

[♦] Why, sirs,

[♦] He sends ye not to murder me for this;

[210] For in this sin he is as deep as I.