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'He is a man stern and soldierly to the outer eye, but with the heart of a saint within him. I promise you there was little need of the strapado in his regiment, for there was not a man who did not fear the look of sorrow in his Colonel's eyes far more than he did the provost-marshal.
Upon this we determined to attempt recovering our liberty, rather than run the risk of remaining as slaves for ever in the country, and besides it was said we were to have the strapado.
"And now, my good friend of the Mist," said he, "can you tell me what has become of your hopeful grandson, as I have not seen him since he assisted me to disarm after the action, a negligence which deserveth the strapado?" "He is not far from hence," said the wounded outlaw "lift not your hand upon him, for he is man enough to pay a yard of leathern scourge with a foot of tempered steel."
While he is bound, as we say, to keep his shop, he is like the galley-slave chained down to the oar; he tugs and labours indeed, and exerts the utmost of his strength, for fear of the strapado, and because he is obliged to do it; but when he is on shore, and is out from the bank, he abhors the labour, and hates to come to it again.
Take him away, and let him have the Strapado. Car. Baridama, Dermack. Fran. Heavens, what says he? I Turk. He means to have you castrated. Fran. Castrated! Oh, that's some dreadful thing, I'll warrant, Gracious Great Turk, for Mahomet's sake, excuse me; alas, I've lost my wits. Car. Galero Gardines? Guz. The Emperor asks if thou art married, Fellow. Fran.
The Viceroy made vs a very sharpe answere, and sayd we should be better sifted before it were long, and that they had further matter against vs. Whereupon we presently determined rather to seeke our liberties, then to bee in danger for euer to be slaues in the countrey, for it was told vs we should haue the strapado.
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