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Is the execution over?

Yes, it is over.

Ah! then I am too late.

What mean ye by that?

I brought a pardon for him.

A pardon! O confound your tardy speed! Had you upon some paltry wager strove, You had run faster.—O, thou cursed fool! O had'd thou sped, I'd made a rich man of thee!

My steed and I across the high-swoln flood, Those on the shore shrieking to see our boldness, Have fearless swam some miles short of the pass Which we must else have gain'd, or, by my faith, I had been later.