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Rh our first business, therefore, is to destroy him, and then we may be at leisure to fall upon each other the first opportunity.

[Aside. 'Tis well observed: how I could rejoice now to see this rascally judge upon an altar, his arms hanging on one side and his legs on the other, whilst I with my golden knife was ripping up his guts and consulting his liver at leisure!

[Aside. Shall I never be able to send this villainous high priest to jail, and make him swallow a pint of hemlock by my command?

O my friend, here come our noble assistants. I have taken care to prepare the populace.

Very well, my dear friend, you may depend upon me in this affair, not forgetting old scores.

[Anitus whispers Melitus.

Justice, justice, scandal, impiety, justice, justice, irreligion, impiety, justice!