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Crossing the down at night, she threatened him,If ever tormented them again, to informOf his unlawful ways. Well—so it was—'Twas what they both were born to, he provoked her,She laid an information, and one mornThey found her in the stable, her throat cutFrom ear to ear, 'till the head only hungJust by a bit of skin.JANE.Oh dear! oh dear!HARRY.I hope they hung the man!GRANDMOTHER.They took him up;There was no proof, no one had seen the deed,And he was set at liberty. But GodWhose eye beholdeth all things, he had seenThe murder, and the murderer knew that GodWas witness to his crime. He fled the place,But nowhere could he fly the avenging hand
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