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<strong>The</strong> subject <strong>of</strong> debate, a townsman<br />

slain:<br />

One pleads the fine discharged,<br />

which one denied,<br />

And bade the public and the laws<br />

decide:<br />

<strong>The</strong> witness is produced on either<br />

hand:<br />

For this, or that, the partial people<br />

stand:<br />

<strong>The</strong> appointed heralds still the<br />

noisy bands,<br />

And form a ring, with sceptres in<br />

their hands:<br />

On seats <strong>of</strong> stone, within the sacred<br />

place, 254<br />

<strong>The</strong> reverend elders nodded o'er the<br />

case;<br />

Alternate, each the attesting sceptre<br />

took,<br />

And rising solemn, each his sentence<br />

spoke

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