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Quotation from Henry VIII by William Shakespeare
“The law I bear no malice for my death; ’T has done, upon the premises, but justice. But those that sought it I could wish more Christians”
Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1541 (First Folio text, modernized))
On his way to execution, Buckingham accepts the court's verdict as formally just while hinting that his accusers acted from malice; he goes on to forgive them.
Citation: "The law I bear no malice for my death; ’T has done, upon the premises, but justice. But those that sought it I could wish more Christians" — William Shakespeare, Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 1 (Project Gutenberg #1541 (First Folio text, modernized)). (id henry-viii-q2)
