As he is clement if th’ offender mourn
... 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.
Would you be pleased To find a nation of such barbarous temper
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode on earth,
Whet their detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
Owed not nor made not you, nor that the elements
Were not all appropriate to your comforts
But chartered unto them? What would you think
To be thus used? This is the strangers’ case,
And this your mountainish inhumanity. (The Book of Sir Thomas More, John Jowett (ed.), Sir Thomas More: Original Text by Anthony Munday and George Chettle)
I could understand the rest but could not figure the emphasized lines out. Can you help me?
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alibey1917 As he is clement if th’ offender mourn, Because he shows mercy if the criminal shows remorse (obsolete meaning of "mourn") alibey1917 Would not afford you an abode on earth, (a nation that) would not let you live there alibey1917 and like as if that GodOwed not nor made not you, nor that the elements Were not all appropriate to your comforts But chartered unto them? )
- alibey1917 As he is clement if th’ offender mourn, Because he shows mercy if the criminal shows remorse (obsolete meaning of "mourn") alibey1917 Would not afford you an abode on earth, (a nation that) would not let you live there alibey1917 and like as if that GodOwed not nor made not you, nor that the elements Were not all appropriate to your comforts But chartered unto them?
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alibey1917As he is clement if th’ offender mourn,
Because he shows mercy if the criminal shows remorse (obsolete meaning of "mourn")
alibey1917Would not afford you an abode on earth,
(a nation that) would not let you live there
alibey1917and like as if that GodOwed not nor made not you,
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