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Death, the grave, execution.
“And forty pounds be theirs, a pretty sum,
For sending such a rogue to kingdom come.”
Peter Pindar: Subiects for Painters.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.