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“ ‘I bring, thou seest here, lives innocent, of wife, of sinless children dight to die; if breasts of gen’erous mould and excellent accept such weaklings’ woeful destiny. Thou se’est these hands, this tongue inconsequent, hereon alone the fierce exper’iment try of torments, death, and doom that pass in full Sinis or e’en Perillus’ brazen bull.’