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The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth | George Alfred Townsend | |
Letter III: The Murderer |
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I have looked over this play, his best and favorite one, to see how closely the career of the crookback he so often delineated resembled his own. How like that fearful night of Richard on Bosworth field must have been Booth's sleep in the barn at Port Royal, tortured by ghosts of victims all repeating.
"When I was mortal my anointed body Or this, from some of Booth's female victims:
"Let me sit heavy on thy soul to-morrow! These terrible conjurations must have recalled how aptly the scene as often rehearsed by Booth, sword in hand, where, leaping from his bed, he cries in horror:
"Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! |
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