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the cords, the chains, the prisons, the stocks, the shackles, the collars, and taskmasters most cruel and well acquainted with our backs, who many a time before have imprintedHave imprinted: The sense of the passage seems to require a comma after indiderunt, and not a period, as Richter’s edition has it. scars upon our shoulder-blades; by conquering, now, these legions, troops and armies of thieves,