And threefold vengeance tend upon your steps!

305 Suf. Cease, gentle queen, these execrations

And let thy Suffolk take his heavy leave.

[♦] Queen. Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch!

[♦] Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemy?

Suf. A plague upon them! wherefore should I curse them?

310 Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake’s groan,

[♦] I would invent as bitter-searching terms,

As curst, as harsh and horrible to hear,

Deliver’d strongly through my fixed teeth,