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What then does he state in his information, or what does he allege—I mean Cornelius,
or you who bring these messages from him? He says that gladiators were bought, under pretence
of some games to be exhibited by Faustus, for the purposes of slaughter and
tumult.—Just so;—the gladiators are mentioned whom we know that he was
bound to provide according to his father's will. “But he seized on a whole household
of gladiators; and if he had left that alone, some other troop might have discharged the duty
to which Faustus was bound.” I wish this troop could satisfy not only the envy of
parties unfavourable to him, but even the expectations of reasonable men. “He was in
a desperate hurry, when the time for the exhibition was still far off.” As if in
reality, the time for the exhibition was not drawing very near. This household of slaves was got without Faustus having any idea of such a step; for he neither knew of it
nor wished it.
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