Milton's learned vocabulary [..] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.
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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.
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