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make the eyes flash, and the heart's blood stir in its core. Here is a brave sight for thee!

''The Market-place prepared for the Execution, with two Stakes, and faggots heaped round them, erected in the middle, but nearer the bottom than the front of the Stage. A great Crowd of people are discovered. The Bell tolls rapidly, and then stops.''

Enter the Sheriff and Magistrates, and, supported by a Clergyman, and guarded.

Now, prisoner, may God be merciful to thee! Make use of the few moments of life that remain, by making confession before these good people of the wickedness thou hast committed, and the justice of the sentence that condemns thee. It is all the reparation now in thy power; and may God accept it of thee!

Oh, hone! oh, hone!