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My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say

I play the torturer, by sthen out the worst that must be spoken

RICHARD II

We now return, for a

under an accumulation of misfortunes Soon after his arrival in that

city, he had been arrested by order of the Senate, and, without knowing

of what he was suspected, was conveyed to a place of confinement,

whither the most strenuous enquiries of his friends had been unable to

trace him Who the enemy was, that had occasioned hiuess, unless, indeed, it was Montoni, on whom his

suspicions rested, and not only with much apparent probability, but with

justice

In the affair of the poisoned cup, Montoni had suspected Morano; but,

being unable to obtain the degree of proof, which was necessary to

convict hiuilty intention, he had recourse to e, than he could hope to obtain by prosecution He eht confide, to drop a letter of

accusation into the DENUNZIE SECRETE, or lions' e's palace, as receptacles for anony persons, who may be disaffected towards the

state

As, on these occasions, the accuser is not confronted with the