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I charge thee, not to flout the city's law!

I charge thee, use no useless heralding!

Stern is a people newly 'scaped from death.

Whet thou their sternness! burial he shall have.

How? grace of burial, to the city's foe?

God hath not judged him separate in guilt.

True—till he put this land in jeopardy.

His rights usurped, he answered wrong with wrong.

Nay—but for one man's sin he smote the State.

Contention doth out-talk all other gods!

Prate thou no more—I will to bury him.