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Thelwall, when on his trial at the Old Bailey for high treason, during the evidence for the prosecution, wrote the following note, and sent it to his counsel, Mr. Erskine: "I am determined to plead my cause myself." Mr. Erskine wrote under it: "If you do, you'll be hang'd:" to which Thelwall immediately returned this reply: "I'll be hang'd, then, if I do."
I will be bound to be Hang'd if thou hast not a hankering after Some young Wench; thou couldst never loiter Thus else; but I'll forgive thee now, and prithee go to My Lady Aminta's Lodgings; kiss her hand From me; and tell her, I am just returned from The Campain: mark that word, Sirrah. Lab. I shall, Sir, 'tis truth. Fal. Lab. I warrant you, Sir, for a Speech. Fal.
What do you want? Some scoundrel of a seaman, I suppose, who has deserted and turned thief. But don't think you shall escape, sirrah I'll have you hang'd, you dog, I will. Your blood shall pay for that of my two hounds, you ragamuffin. I would not have parted with them to save your whole generation from the gallows, you ruffian, you!"
Lawful! it shall be when I've had Livery and Seisin of her Body and that shall be presently Rogue, quick besides, this Bellmour dares as well be hang'd as come into England. Bel. If he gets his Pardon, Sir Sir Feeb. Pardon! no, no, I have took care for that, for I have, you must know, got his Pardon already. Bel. How, Sir! got his Pardon, that's some amends for robbing him of his Wife. Sir Feeb.
But I impatient to see this dear delight of my Soul, and hearing from none of you this six weeks, came from Brussels in this disguise for the Hague I have not seen, though hang'd there but come let's away, and compleat me a right St. Omer's Spark, that I may present my self as soon as they come from Church. SCENE II. Sir Cautious Fulbank's House. Enter Lady Fulbank, Pert and Bredwel.
She immediately adjusted it, and looking a little seriously, Well, says she, I'll be hang'd if you and your silent Friend there are not against the Doctor in your Hearts, I suspected as much by his saying nothing.
Shakespeare had no such "lenten" language in his thoughts; he wrote, as Mr. Becket tells us, "And my pure soot is hang'd!" We are happy to find that so much can be offered in favour of the old printers. And yet were it not that the genuine text is always to be preferred we could almost wish that the critic had left their blunder as it stood.
"Pay it I say; pay it: 'tis fairly won." "Fifty pounds!" "Every doit," said I: "I'm sick of schooling." "Be hang'd if I do!" snapp'd Master Carter. "Then be hang'd, sir, but all the town shall hear to-morrow of the frog and the pool! No, sir: I am off to see the world "'Says he: "This is better than moping in school!""
And has he not within a year Hang'd threescore of them in one shire?
Leticia Bredwel. Bel. Bredwel I have heard of her, she was Mistress Ral. To fine Mr. Bel. How! hang'd? Ral. Hang'd, Sir, hang'd at the Hague in Holland. Gay. I heard some such News, but did not credit it. Bel. For what, said they, was he hang'd? Ral. Why, e'en for High Treason, Sir, he killed one of their Kings. Gay. Holland's a Commonwealth, and is not rul'd by Kings. Ral.
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