Both Uses of
vengeance
in
Henry IV, Part 1
- A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too! marry, and amen!†
Scene 2.4 *
- ] I know not whether God will have it so, For some displeasing service I have done, That, in His secret doom, out of my blood He'll breed revengement and a scourge for me; But thou dost, in thy passages of life, Make me believe that thou art only mark'd For the hot vengeance and the rod of Heaven To punish my mistreadings.†
Scene 3.2
Definition:
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(vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)