ABSTRACT
44 immediately issued out, slew the Emperor's Guards, and, lastly, the Emperor and his cruel Wife, after they had sufficiently upbraided them with the wicked Deeds they had done. Then seizing on the wicked Moor, the fearful Villain fell on his Knees, promising to discover alII; but when he had told how he had killed the Prince, betrayed the three Sons of Andronicus by false Accusation, and counselled the Abuse to the fair Lavinia, they scarce knew what Torments sufficient to devise for him; but at last, digging a Hole, they set him in the Ground to the middle alive, smeered him over with Honey, and so, between the stinging of Bees and Wasps and starving, he miserably ended his wretched Days,2 After this, to prevent the Torments he expected, when these Things came to be known, at his Daughter's Request, he killed her3 ; and so, rejoicing he had revenged himself on his Enemies to the full, fell on his own Sword and died.4
