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...from the better part of the Commonwealth's-men. It is thus finely described by Andrew Marvell : — While round the armed bands Did clap their bloody...But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try : Nor call'd the Gods with vulgar spight To vindicate his helpless right ; But bow'd his comely head Down,...

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...wore a net of such a scope, That Charles himself might chase To Carisbrooke's narrow case. That hence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold might adorn, While round the armed bande Did clap their bloody hands. Here then we have an avowal, in poetry it is true — but still...

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...with hope, He wove a net of such a scope That Charles himself might chase To Carisbrook's narrow case, That thence the royal actor borne, The tragic scaffold...round the armed bands, Did clap their bloody hands : lie nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge...