Gibet

Si vous sauvez un voleur du gibet, il aidera ceux qui vous pendront. ❋ Rene Meertens (2010)

“For (quoth she) it hath not deserued to be tied to the gibet, and to be foode for birds of the ayre.” ❋ William Painter (N/A)

Nous vîmes que c’était un gibet & à trois branches, ❋ Unknown (1920)

Quand elles sont preuenues de la Iustice, elles ne pleurent & ne iettent vne seule larme, voire leur faux martyre soit de la torture, soit du gibet leur est si plaisant, qu'il tarde à plusieurs qu'elles ne soiẽt executées à mort, & souffrẽt fort ioyeusement qu'on leur face le procez, tant il leur tarde qu'elles ne soient auec le Diable. ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)

The prince, says Noailles, "fust souldainement mesné au gibet par ceulx de la part du Roy et de M. Wyatt; et sans quelques hommes qui tout à propoz y accoururent, ils l'eussent estranglé; ce que se peult clairement juger par les marques qu'il en a et aura encores d'icy à long temps au col." ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)

"I beseech you, sirs," said he, "are ye drunk, or have fled justice, and are acting it on your selves, or both? ho! who was going to make a gibet of the bed? ❋ 20-66 Petronius Arbiter (N/A)

Romaines) whom lately ye behelde to go in order of triumphe in victorious maner, to lye nowe bounde vnder the gibet, expecting for tormentes of death: Which cruell and deformed sight, the Albanes eyes can not well be able to beholde, goe to then thou hangman, and binde the handes of him, who hath atchieued to the Romaine people a glorious ❋ William Painter (N/A)

After this, he was had to his arraignment before the archbishop, sitting within the towre, and being condemned, was from thence drawne with horsses to the place of execution called the Elmes, [Sidenote: He is executed.] and there hanged on a gibet, with nine of his adherents, which had defended the church against the kings power: [Sidenote: _Wil. ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)

Princeton's copy ii/v. Caption: "Faust: - Que vois-je remuer autour de ce gibet? ❋ Unknown (2009)

“[Rumor] [around town] is that [Faith] is a gibet”. ❋ HowAboutThemApples (2022)

“[Word around town] is that [Faith] is a gibet”. ❋ HowAboutThemApples (2022)