Each held a boding spectral light,

By which our wary Weg was able

To spy, spread out upon a table,

Late-murdered measures; cord or knife

Had robbed the innocents of life.

A proud Peer’s garter one had strangled,

And many more were maimed and mangled;

In short the scene was simply awful,

And Weg considered quite unlawful.

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