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Taken back to the cell confined to a low dungeon which no light can enter laid |
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Upon your back strapped down spread eagle that there will be iron set upon your |
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Body as great as you can bear and greater |
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Fed three morsels of barley on the first day of questioning weights added on pressing |
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To plead still no crimes admitted or denied three drinks if water to sustain life |
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Through the day weights piling high upon the chest respirations becoming quick |
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And shallow pressure too intense for the body to sustain |
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Mind failing under the pain the plate of iron collapses into the lungs and heart |
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Ending the trial from which neither side has won |