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e to speak for you, unless you can call down from the gibbet the heads of your fellow-traitors? I stand single, said Vane; yet, being thus left alone, I am not afraid, in this great presence, to bear my witness to the glorious cause, nor to seal it with my blood. Such true magnanimity stimulated the vengeance of his enemies; they clamored for his life. Certainly, wrote the king, Sir Henry Vane is too dangerous a man to let live, if we can honestly put him out of the way. The letter, in Hallam, II. 443. It was found he could not honestly be put out of the way; but still, the solicitor urged, he must be made a sacrifice. We know what to do with Chap XI.} 1662 June. him, said the king's counsel. Trial of Sir Henry Vane, 73. 55. The day before his execution, his friends were admitted to his prison; and he cheered their drooping spirits by his own serene intrepidity, reasoning calmly on death and immortality. He reviewed his political career, from the day when he defended A