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““What makes thou there, thou fierce, thou cruel basilisk of these mountains! comes thou to see whether the wounds of this murdered wretch will bleed afresh at thy presence? or comes thou, thus mounted aloft, to glory in the fatal effects of thy native inhumanity, like another Nero at the sight of flaming Rome? Or is it to trample on this unfortunate corpse, as Tarquin's ungrateful daughter did her father's? Tell us quickly why thou comest, and what thou yet desirest?””

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