...perjury against 'my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick', and the murder of Edward Prince of Wales: A shadow like an angel, with bright hair Dabbled in blood; and he shrieked out aloud, 'Clarence is come: false, fleeting, perjured Clarence, That stabbed me in the field...

...the stateliness of the lines that introduce the words of the murdered Edward ('Then came wand'ring by | a shadow like an angel, with bright hair | Dabbled in blood'; 52 ff.) are doubly striking. Despite such isolated excellences, however, the language and rhythm of...

...he seemed to have gone down into the underworld and met the spirits of people he had killed. . . . then came wandering by A shadow like an angel, with bright hair Dabbled in blood, and he squeaked out aloud 'Clarence is come, false, fleeting, perjured Clarence, That stabbed me in the field...

...aloud, 'What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?' And so he vanisht: shriekt out aloud, 'Clarence is come; false, fleeting, perjured Clarence, That stabb'd me in the field...

...Edward, son of Henry VI. As Clarence describes the dream to the Keeper in the Tower, "Then came wand'ring by / A shadow like an angel, with bright hair / Dabbled in blood, and he shriek'd out aloud, / 'Clarence is come — false, fleeting, perjur'd Clarence, / That stabb'd me in...