It was to stimulate their cannibal appetites (which one would think had been gorged sufficiently) by variety and seasoning,--and to quicken them to an alertness in new murders and massacres, if it should suit the purpose of the Guises of the day.
Burke describes how a gruesome display was meant to incite further violence rather than discourage it.
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