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- Gallows
- n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which
the leading actor is translated to heaven. In this country the
gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it.
Whether on the gallows high
(Old play)
Or where blood flows the reddest,
The noblest place for man to die —
Is where he died the deadest.