Richard monologue (Act 3) — The Devil's Disciple

Answer for your own will, sir, and those of your accomplices here (_indicating Burgoyne and Swindon_): I see little divinity about them or you. You talk to me of Christianity when you are in the act of hanging your enemies. Was there ever such blasphemous nonsense! (_To Swindon, more rudely_) You’ve got up the solemnity of the occasion, as you call it, to impress the people with your own dignity—Handel’s music and a clergyman to make murder look like piety! Do you suppose I am going to help you? You’ve asked me to choose the rope because you don’t know your own trade well enough to shoot me properly. Well, hang away and have done with it.