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crime with which you would charge me; though I may well look disturbed on hearing such terrible intelligence.

Ay, so thou may'st; but there is more than looks to condemn thee. (Showing him the dagger, upon which he recoils some paces back, and seems confounded.) Does this appal thee? We arrest thee in the name of the state, and this shall be our witness that we have not acted rashly. Lay hands on our master! Ye shall take our lives, hell-hounds, ere ye wrong one hair of his head.

We arrest him in the name of the state, and he is our lawful prisoner.

And I will blow your brains out in my own name, if ye do not let him go i' the instant.