And my good lord, for your honors better satisfaction, that it was not so barbarouslie nor butcherlie don as you thinck it to be, it should seeme your honor hath bene wrongfullie enformed, in sayinge he was cutt in manye peeces, after his deathe-for if he had bene cutt in many peces, he could not a lived till the next morninge, which themselves reported he did-which shewes he was not cutt in verie many peeces!
( George MacDonald Fraser )
[ The Steel Bonnets: The Story ]
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