Thou elvish-mark’d,76 abortive, rooting hog!77 Thou that wast seal’d in thy nativity The slave of nature and the son of hell! Thou slander of thy mother’s heavy womb Thou loathed issue of thy father’s loins! Thou rag of honour! thou detested—
Q. MAR.
Thou elvish-mark’d, 76 abortive, rooting hog! 77
Thou that wast seal’d in thy nativity
The slave of nature and the son of hell!
Thou slander of thy mother’s heavy womb
Thou loathed issue of thy father’s loins!
Thou rag of honour! thou detested—
Footnotes
76 elvish-mark’d] the common superstition that persons born with scars or deformities had been marked by wicked fairies or elves.
77 hog] Richard’s heraldic blazon featured a boar.
