* I hare known him bring off feveral that

* every Body thought wO\2kl have been
f hang'd.
• Biit fuppofe you fhould bfe acquitted,

* faid Booth % would not the Blood of this

* poor Wretch lie a little heavy at yoiir

* Heart?

* Why fhould it, CapUin, /aid the
< Bailiff. Is it not all done in a lawful

* Way ? Why will Peopfe-jrefifl the Law

* when they know the Confequence ? To

* be fure, if a Man was to kill another in
^ an unlawKil Manner as it were, and what

* the Law calls Murder, that is quite and
^ clear another Thing. I fhould not care

* to be convifted of Murder any more

* than another Man, Why now. Captain,

* you have been abroad in the Wars they

* tell me, and to be fure muft have killed
^ Men m your Time. Pray was you

M /: * ever



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25P AMELIA. Book XH.
* ever afraid afterwards, of feeing their

!: Ghofts ?

^ That IS a different Affair, [cries Boofbv

* but I would not kilia.Man in cold Blood.
' foe aU. the World-

^ There is no Difference at alf,. as I can
/ fee, crips, the Bailiff. One is as much

^ in the Way of Bufinefs as the other.
' When Gentlemen behave themfelves like
/ unto Gendemcn,^ I know how to treat
, * them as fuch as well as any Officer the
> King hath.-: — rAnd when they do not,,

* why they muft take what follows, and.
^ the Law doth, not call it Murder.
