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<p>COURT. Gentlemen of the jury, you cannot make a felony of this.</p>
<p>JURY. He might have come and paid for it the next morning.</p>
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<p>First Middlesex jury, before Mr. Common Serjeant.</p> </div1></div0>
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<p>COURT. Gentlemen of the jury, you cannot make a felony of this.</p>
<p>JURY. He might have come and paid for it the next morning.</p>
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