"You’ll put down strangers,/ Kill them, cut their throats, possess their houses,/ And lead the majesty of law in lyam/ To slip him like a hound. Alas, alas! Say now the King/ As he is clement if th’offender mourn,/ Should so much come too short of your great trespass/ As but to banish you: whither would you go?/What country, by the nature of your error,/ Should give you harbour? Go you to France or Flanders,/ To any German province, Spain or Portugal,/ Nay, anywhere that not adheres to England:/ Why, you must needs be strangers"
In the monologue, Shakespeare's character appealed to the English, saying that they should accept the Huguenots as they would also want to have a safe refuge if they were banished from their country. The play will be made available on the British Library's Shakepeare section, the Guardian reported.
