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A felon could plead benefit of clergy and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the neck verse, which was very usually the Miserere mei of Psalm 51.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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