I hope it is not to your nature abhorrent
To sign for these wretches a legal death-warrant.
Were I but in your place, I'm sure it would suit
To sign their death-warrants, and hang them to boot.
Dunmore.
My lord! I'm amazed—have we routed the foe?
I shall govern again, then, if matters be so;
And as to the hanging, in short, to be plain,
I'll hang them so well they'll ne'er want it again.
With regard to the wretches who thump at my gates, *