The sun that sear’d the wings of my sweet boy

Thy brother Edward, and thyself the sea

25 Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life.

Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words!

My breast can better brook thy dagger’s point

Than can my ears that tragic history.

But wherefore dost thou come? is’t for my life?

30 Glou. Think’st thou I am an executioner?

K. Hen. A persecutor, I am sure, thou art:

If murdering innocents be executing,