Maria

Friends, Filipinos, countrymen, lend me your thumbs;

I come to disparage Maria, not to wink at her.

The evil that men do lives after them;

The good is oft interred with their veins;

So let it be with Maria. The crazy Peter

Hath told you Maria was menacing:

If it were so, it was a grievous fault,

And grievously hath Maria answer’d it.

Here, under leave of Peter and the rest–

For Peter is a dreadful man;

So are they all, all dreadful men–

Come I to speak in Maria’s funeral.

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