He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his stomach slit open, and his intestines taken out and burnt, and his carcase chopped into four quarters.
John Broadbent
Milton's learned vocabulary [..] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.
children parents authority vocabulary
torture punishment execution hanging barbarism
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