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 other to hang him on the lamp-iron. They both agreed in this statement. The tall one who had been hanged, said, if he won the toss, he would have hanged the other. He said, he then felt the effects on his neck at the time he was hanging, and his eyes was so much swelled that he saw double. The Magistrates expressed their horror and disgust, and ordered the man who had been hanged to find bail for the violent and unjustifiable assault upon the officer, and the short one for hanging the other. Not having bail, they were committed to Bridewell for trial."

 

An epitaph by this poet is the only thing which I found worth remembering in one of those cubic volumes which Gruter has crammed with trash. Quas potius decuit nostro te inferre sepulchro Petronilla, tibi spargimus has lacrimas, 