Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow I tender it here; I do as truly suffer SHAKSPEARE 465 High minds, of native pride and force, Fear for their scourge mean villains have: SCOTT's Marmion. Remorse drops anguish from her burning eyes, CHARLES SPRAGUE 466 REPENTANCE REPORT - RUMOUR. Pangs more corrosive and severe, More fierce, more poignant and intense, Wak'd in the breast of innocence. MRS. HOLFORD'S Margaret of Anjou REPENTANCE.-(See REMORSE.) REPORT - RUMOUR. Then straight thro' all the world 'gan fame to fly; The circles small, of nothing that begun, Till of the drops, which from the skies do fall, The circles spread and hide the waters all. Rumour's a pipe Mirror for Magistrates Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures; That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, SHAKSPEARE. It must be so ; - for Thomas Brown, Esquire, That Higgons said, while he was walking with 'Yclept Miss Catchem, (Higgons was her beau,) J. T WATSON REPROOF - REPUTATION, &c 467 The flying rumours gather'd as they roll'd; In every ear it spread, on every tongue it grew. Forbear sharp speeches to her: she's a lady Pr'ythee, forgive me; I did but chide in jest; the best loves use it SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. MIDDLETON Reprove not in their wrath incensèd men; 468 REVENGE - VENGEANCE. Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools, the pageant of a day: The world's best comfort was, his doom was past- So fares the follower of the Muses' train; Then round his skeleton a garland wreathe. COWPER. Rejected Addresses. Do thou the good thy thoughts oft meditate, CARLOS WILCOX. REVENGE-VENGEANCE. Oh, that the slave had forty thousand lives! SHAKSPEARS. I am disgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled here; The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury; For who forgives without a further strife, And 't is a finer conquest, truly said, Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils. SHAKSPEARS. LADY E. CAREW. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. |