"If his Majesty is resolved to have my head, he may make a whistle of my arse if he pleases."
— Algernon Sidney

January 1, 1970

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On being told that part of his sentence had been remitted — that he would merely be executed, but his estate would remain intact, quoted in Joe Miller's Jests (1739), p. 6.