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For when those judges saw in this cause that those men are in possession of abundant
wealth, and that he is in the greatest beggary, they would not ask who had got advantage
from the deed, but they would connect the manifest crime and suspicion of guilt rather
with the plunder than with the poverty. What if this be added to that consideration that
you were previously poor? what if it be added that you are avaricious? what if it be
added that you are audacious? what if it be added that you were the greatest enemy of
the man who has been murdered? need any further motive be sought for, which may have
impelled you to such a crime? But which of all these particulars can be denied?
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