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Post by cjm on Jan 13, 2014 5:27:04 GMT
All:God save your majesty! Cade:I thank you, good people—there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord. Dick:The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Cade:Nay, that I mean to do. ... Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4, scene 2, 71–78 Dick the butcher, a character no one remembers, utters one of the few memorable lines from the entire three-part Henry the Sixth cycle. Dick's Utopian idea to kill all England's lawyers is his addition to the promises of the traitorous Jack Cade, who envisions a quasi-communistic social revolution, with himself installed as autocrat. Cade alleges that all lawyers do is shuffle parchments back and forth in a systematic attempt to ruin the common people. His demagoguery is simply a calculated appeal to simple folks' longing to be left alone. Yet one may recognize Cade's moral failings and still sympathize with Dick.
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Post by Trog on Jan 14, 2014 21:04:20 GMT
Well, let us spare a few. Some of my friends are lawyers.
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