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...this to rip up my own bowels, And bathe it to the hilt, in far less damnable Self-murder. Gon. Oh, my son ; from the blind dotage Of a father's fondness these ills arose : For thee I 've been ambitious, base, and bloody : For thce I 'vo plunged into this sea of sin ; Stemming the...