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W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895.

The Slaughter of the Innocents

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Henry V. III. 3.

YOUR naked infants spitted upon pikes;

Whiles the mad mothers, with their howls confused,

Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry

At Herod’s bloody hunting slaughtermen.