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ward court, where everything he

saw might have frozen the most

fearless person with horror.

There reigned all over a most

frightful silence; the image of

death everywhere showed itself,

and there was nothing to be seen

but stretched-out bodies of men

and animals, all seeming to be

dead. He, however, very well

knew, by the ruby faces and

pimpled noses of the beefeaters,

that they were only asleep; and

their goblets, wherein still

remained some drops of wine,

showed plainly that they fell

asleep in their cups.

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