Quotation by Shakespeare

The tyrannous and bloody deed is done,
The most arch deed of piteous massacre
That ever yet this land was guilty of.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Tyrell, in Richard III, act 4, sc. 3, l. 1-3.

Lamenting the murder, ordered by Richard, of the two young princes in the Tower of London.
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