Sentence:  It was my fortune to be at "Rome", upon a day that one "Catena", a notorious high-way theefe, was executed: at his strangling no man of the companie seemed to be mooved to any <WSD>ruth</WSD>nb.... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy. (from 13th c.)