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King Henry VI is on the battlefield away from the fighting, ruminating on how he wishes he wasn’t a king. He sees a young soldier come in dragging and dead body. The young soldier realizes that he has accidently killed his father and mourns over the body. An older soldier comes in dragging a body, and he realizes that he has accidentally killed his son. He mourns over the body. King Henry, seeing these horrible scenes, mourns for them and claims to be ten times more woeful than them to see his
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Ill blows the wind that profits nobody.
This man, whom hand to hand I slew in fight,
May be possessed with some store of crowns;
And I, that haply take them from him now,
May yet ere night yield both my life and them
To some man else, as this dead man doth me.
Who's this? O God! it is my father's face,
Whom in this conflict I unwares have kill'd.
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