Ears not to be cut off a second time. Executioner discovers that the prisoner's ears are of stucco, having been clipped for a previous offense

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Ears not to be cut off a second time. Executioner discovers that the prisoner's ears are of stucco, having been clipped for a previous offense.

The wise and the foolish. · Cleverness. · Clever persons and acts. · Cleverness in the law court. · Clever means of avoiding legal punishment. · view the constellation · filed as J1184.2

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Literary CrystallizationFour Plays (The Tempest, A Midsummer-Night's Dream, The Winter's Tale, King Lear) — University Press Shakespeare, ed. Sidney Lee, The Winter's Tale Act 4

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Italian NovellaRotunda.

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Filed under No second punishment for same offense.

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Adulteress hurled from high rock escapes injury: she may not be punished again

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