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   Userpor@webtv.net (grostle news) wrote in news:26208-4E26791D-165   
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   > Well here is a question for you guys in the "shelter", if you are up   
   to   
   > it....   
   >   
   > Just viewed the season one, episode nineteen where at the end Rod   
   > Serling comments,   
   >   
   > "...he has come to open the purple testament of bleeding war..."   
   >   
   > Mr. Serling Claims the quote came from Shakespeare's play "Richard   
   III"   
   > but when I thoroughly searched the script I could not find that quote.   
   >   
   > Did I look in the wrong place or what?   
   >   
   > Paul Massey   
   > grostle news service   
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   Serling seems to have made an error.   
   It is from Richard II (1595) not Richard III (1592).   
      
   Act III, Scene 3   
      
   King Richard II. We are amazed; and thus long have we stood   
   To watch the fearful bending of thy knee,   
   [To NORTHUMBERLAND]   
   Because we thought ourself thy lawful king:            1715   
   And if we be, how dare thy joints forget   
   To pay their awful duty to our presence?   
   If we be not, show us the hand of God   
   That hath dismissed us from our stewardship;   
   For well we know, no hand of blood and bone            1720   
   Can gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre,   
   Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp.   
   And though you think that all, as you have done,   
   Have torn their souls by turning them from us,   
   And we are barren and bereft of friends;               1725   
   Yet know, my master, God omnipotent,   
   Is mustering in his clouds on our behalf   
   Armies of pestilence; and they shall strike   
   Your children yet unborn and unbegot,   
   That lift your vassal hands against my head            1730   
   And threat the glory of my precious crown.   
   Tell Bolingbroke—for yond methinks he stands—   
   That every stride he makes upon my land   
   Is dangerous treason: HE IS COME TO OPEN   
   THE PURPLE TESTAMENT OF BLEEDING WAR;                  1735   
   But ere the crown he looks for live in peace,   
   Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' sons   
   Shall ill become the flower of England's face,   
   Change the complexion of her maid-pale peace   
   To scarlet indignation and bedew                       1740   
   Her pastures' grass with faithful English blood.   
      
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