Could I decline this dreadful hour?

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Next comes a supposition, that the bird sleeps on the wing, and that the great distance from land at which it is seen at close of day is thought to favour the supposition […] .

That month, the king's chapelman William Cornish was waylaid and beaten up by Empson's men and immured in the Fleet, the notorious debtors' prison […]