Than for the closest questions put before.
Thus all his fears the verdict set aside,
And at the slave-shop Peter still applied.
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Then came a boy, of manners soft and mild—
Our seamen's wives with grief beheld the child;
All thought (the poor themselves) that he was one
Of gentle blood, some noble sinner's son,
Who had, belike, deceived some humble maid,
Whom he had first seduced and then betray'd.—