Finding all efforts vain, he assumed courage from despair, and prepared himself for death, with a spirit better suited to his rank and character.

This favorite of the people was attended to the scaffold with a plentiful effusion of tears.
He warned the executioner not to fall into the error which he had committed in beheading Russel, where it had been necessary to repeat the blow.

This precaution served only to dismay the executioner.

He struck a feeble blow on Monmouth, who raised his head from the block, and looked him in the face, as if reproaching him for his failure.

He gently laid down his head a second time; and the executioner struck him again and again to no purpose.