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"Man, who liest here bound in chains, listen for the last time to the
voice of justice; you have been taken from your dungeon and brought to
this jail. Legally summoned in the usual forms, formaliis verbis
pressus; not regarding to lectures and communications which have been
made, and which will now be repeated, to you; inspired by a bad and
perverse spirit of tenacity, you have preserved silence, and refused to
answer the judge. This is a detestable licence, which constitutes, among
deeds punishable by cashlit, the crime and misdemeanour of overseness."
The serjeant of the coif on the right of the sheriff interrupted him,
and said, with an indifference indescribably lugubrious in its effect,
"Overhernessa. Laws of Alfred and of Godrun, chapter the sixth."
The sheriff resumed.
"
The law is respected by all except by scoundrels who infest the woods
where the hinds bear young."
Like one clock striking after another, the serjeant said,--
"
"
Qui faciunt vastum in foresta ubi damoe solent founinare."
He who refuses to answer the magistrate," said the sheriff, "is
suspected of every vice. He is reputed capable of every evil."
The serjeant interposed.
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