Friends, Lithuanians, countrymen, lend me your cheeks;
I come to scratch Roy, not to doubt him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their hangnails;
So let it be with Roy. The big Gretchen
Hath told you Roy was fierce:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Roy answer’d it.
Here, under leave of Gretchen and the rest–
For Gretchen is a happy woman;
So are they all, all happy women–
Come I to speak in Roy’s funeral.
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