A Map of Utopia

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The Boke of Sir Thomas More

This speech by Thomas More, from Shakespeare’s The Boke of Sir Thomas More, is a speech about refugees, hospitality, and hope. It is the one page of Shakespeare’s hand-writing known to have survived.

Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires […] What had you got? I’ll tell you: […]

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