malefactor quotes

A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea malefactordiesweetly was only belonging toher husband.

-Dryden,John
  A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire, 'The  Art of Satire'.

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