"He is a medicine-monger, probationer of receipts, and Doctor Epidemic; he is perpetually putting his medicines upon their trial, and very often finds them GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER, but still they have some trick or other to come off, and avoid burning by the hand of the hangman.

I like not that my men-at-arms should turn hangmen.

But whether black or lighter dyes are worn, The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat; resign the way To shun the surly butcher's greasy tray Butchers whose hands are dyed with blood's foul stain, And always foremost in the hangman's train.

It is our fortune to be witnesses of a new discovery in politicks; we may congratulate ourselves upon being contemporaries with those men who have shown that hangmen and halters are unnecessary in a state, and that ministers may escape the reproach of destroying their enemies, by inciting them to destroy themselves.

"Why, sir," answered Marston, "the man may possibly change his mind before the day of trial, and it is the hangman's office, not yours, my good sir, to fasten the halter about his neck.

The court reconvened and a new talesman was called, resembling in appearance a professional hangman who for relaxation leaned toward the execution of Italians.

O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?

"I ran thither at once," wrote the Duke; "I spoke to those who seemed most excited and impressed upon them how horrible it was to hang men without trial; besides, to act as hangmen was to enter a trade which they all thought infamous; that they had judges, and that this was their affair.

I, I, let it, let it: Collers, halters, & hangmen are to me bracelets and frendly companions.

Canst thou see mee Thus worryed amongst hangmen?

sucking out the lifeblood of the people, crushing the spirit of freedom by soldiers, hangmen, policemen, and harassing the people in its domestic life and the sanctuary of its family with oppression worse than a free American can conceive.

The hangman and he are twins; only the hangman is the elder brother, and he dying without issue, as commonly he does, for none but a ropemaker's widow will marry him, this then inherits.

That rails on all men condemned and out of favour, and the first that says "away with the traitors!"yet struck with much ruth at executions, and for pity to see a man die, could kill the hangman.

We have seen Selwyn in many points of view, not all very creditable to him; first, expelled from Oxford for blasphemy; next, a professed gambler and the associate of men who led fashion in those days, it is true, but then it was very bad fashion; then as a lover of hangmen, a wit and a lounger.

In place of that protest, in place of the poignant indignation which appealed to Stolypin's hangmen to fix their well-soaped noose around his own old neck, since, if any were guilty, it was hein place of the shame and wrath that cried, "I cannot be silent!"

I regarded the whole human species as so many hangmen and torturers; I considered them as confederated to tear me to pieces; and this wide scene of inexorable persecution inflicted upon me inexpressible agony.

You know the hangmen always used to beg the victim's pardon.

The negro-traderlike hangmen, negro-traders are fitted by nature for their professionit came into his headhe had no heart, not even a negro-trader's heartthat it would be more judicious to seclude her during these shopping visits, so to speak.

All who (like him) have writ ill plays before; For they, like thieves condemn'd, are hangmen made, To execute the members of their trade.

I do; their sculpture and painting have been employed on most ignoble objectson scourgers and hangmen, on beggarly enthusiasts and base impostors.

So now ye may quit and scamper out of this, the whole throng of ye, robbers and hangmen and bankbreakers, bargers and bad characters, and you may believe me telling you that is the nearest ye ever will come to my gold!

The Hangmen of Sleepy Valley.

The Hangmen of Sleepy Valley.

All, who (like him) have writ ill plays before; For they, like thieves condemned, are hangmen made, To execute the members of their trade.

By all that's sacred, I am serious, Hubert, You now have made me sensible, what furies, Whips, Hangmen, and Tormentors a bad man Do's ever bear about him: let the good That you this day have done, be ever number'd The first of your best actions; Can you think, Where Goswin is or Gerrard, or your love, Or any else, or all that are proscrib'd?