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King Henry has always had a complicated
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My life, when it is written, will read better than it lived. Henry Fitz-empress, first Plantagenet, a king at the ablest soldier of an able time. He led men well, he cared for justice when he could, and ruled for years a state as great as Charlemagne's.
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And I wish you plague! May all your children breech and die! My boys are gone. I've lost my boys. You dare to damn me, do you? Well, I'll damn you back. Goddamn you! My boys are gone. I've lost my boys. Oh, Jesus. All my boys.
Act 1, Scene 6
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