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...bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." REIGN OF NERO. The following passage of history will show,...

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...armecl bands Did clap their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, Upon that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called...vulgar spite, To vindicate his helpless right, But bow'd his comely head Down, as upon a bed." This compassion, excited in the nation by the tragical...

...bands Did clap their bloody hands ; He nothing common did, or mean, Upon that memorable scene, But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try, Nor called...: But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." selves, then, into a belief that hewas uncompromisingly firm, of whom Clarendon wrote, that " he had...

...bands Did clasp their bloody hands, He nothing common did or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called...right ; But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed. Charles was attended to the scaffold by Bishop Juxon, and by two of the gentlemen of his bedchamber,...

...bands Did clasp their bloody hands : He nothing common did, or mean, After that memorable scene ; But with his keener eye The axe's edge did try ; Nor called...right, But bowed his comely head Down, as upon a bed." 1 I have not spoken of the King's last sorrowful hours ; of his parting with his children ; of his...