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O no, she envies none but pleasant things.
Such is the folly of despiteful chance!
Fortune is blind, and sees not my deserts;
So is she deaf, and hears not my laments;
And could she hear, yet is she wilful-mad,
And therefore will not pity my distress.
Suppose that she could pity me, what then?
What help can be expected at her hands
Whose foot is standing on a rolling stone,
And mind more mutable than fickle winds? 30
Why wail I then, where's hope of no redress?
O yes, complaining makes my grief seem less.
My late ambition hath distain'd my faith;
My breach of faith occasion'd bloody wars;
Those bloody wars have spent my treasure
And with my treasure my people's blood;
And with their blood, my joy and best belov'd,
My best belov'd, my sweet and only son.
O, wherefore went I not to war myself?
The cause was mine; I might have died for both:
My years were mellow, his but young and green;
My death were natural, but his was forc'd. 42
Alex. No doubt, my liege, but still the prince survives.
Vic. Survives! ay, where?
Alex. In Spain--a prisoner by mischance of war.
Vic. Then they have slain him for his father's fault.
Alex. That were a breach to common law of arms.
Vic. They reck no laws that meditate revenge.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Spanish Tragedy: A Play. Contributors: Thomas Kyd - author, J. Schick - editor. Publisher: J. M. Dent. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1898. Page Number: 14.
    
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