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Ut yet (say you) there are such cruelties and murthers at this day, as the like have not been heard of. I know what you point at, and what was done of late, but I appeal to your conscience Lipsius, was their no such thing amongst the ancients? How ignorant are you if you know it not, and how wicked if you dissemble it? For there is such a plenty of Examples in this matter, and they lye so ready, that it is some trouble even to choose. Know you not the name of Sylla the Fortunate? If you doe, you remember that infamous and cruel prescription of his, by which he cast out of one City four thousand se- Rh