Look, I pray you, at the whole business, consider all the circumstances of it, and ask yourselves whether this is not a charge, not only so grossly improbable, but so perfectly impossible, that there is not any evidence which can make it even plausible.
Burke challenges the plausibility of the charges against the women involved in the rebellion, urging careful consideration of the evidence.
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