Are you drawn forth among a world of men
To slay the innocent? What is my offense?
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Are you drawn forth among a world of men
To slay the innocent? What is my offense?
Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?
What lawful quest have given their verdict up
Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced
The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death
Before I be convict by course of law?
To threaten me with death is most unlawful:
I charge you, as you hope [to have redemption
By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,]
That you depart, and lay no hands on me.
The deed you undertake is damnable.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty!
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
[Lat., O caeca nocentum read more

Oh, the blind counsels of the guilty!
Oh, how cowardly is wickedness always!
[Lat., O caeca nocentum consilia!
O semper timidum scelus!]

There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.

There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as read more

As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again.

Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again.

'Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help
it.

'Cause I's wicked,--I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help
it.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.