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kept on their way while the glad infants not knowing what wicked hands they were in, smiled and discoursed after their pretty manner. crying dad, dad, and playing with the beards of those dreadful monsters and telling them stories of their nurse’s kindness, and the many playthings they had, till coming near the wood, they rode with them across the way, that none might see them enter, till they had covered themselves among the thicket of trees, and there alighting they took down the pretty babes who still with a smiling cheer held on their tattle, which so moved Rawbones that he began to persuade Wou'dkill to spare their lives; for why said he, should we shed the blood of those innocent creatures, who never offended us, or any else; Come brother, seeing we have got what we shall get, let us not further satisfy their wicked uncle but leave them to try their fortunes: nay said the other, I ⟨will⟩ not consent to that, my bargain was to murder them, and murdered they shall be. That shall not be so, said Wouldkill, and to prevent discovery, you shall bear them company, if you oppose it; that shall be tried, said Rawbones, and thereupon they drew their
