The thoufand pangs, which tore the lover's breast? GRAINGER. CHA P. XVIII. DOUGLAS TO LORD RANDOLPH. M Y name is NORVAL: on the Grampian hills To follow to the field fome warlike lord ; And Heaven foon granted what firé denied. my This moon which rose last night, round as my fhield, Rufh'd like a torrent down upon the vale, Sweeping our flocks and herds. The shepherds fled For fafety, and for fuccour. I alone, With bended bow, and quiver full of arrows, The road he took, then hafted to my friends: We We fought and conquer'd. Ere a fword was drawn, HOME. CHA P. XIX. OTHELLO's APOLOGY. MOST potent, grave, and reverend Signiors, My very noble and approv'd good masters; And little of this great world can I speak, I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver, Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration, and what mighty magic, (For fuch proceeding I am charg'd withal) I won his daughter with. Her father lov'd me, oft invited me ; Still queftion'd me the ftory of my life, I ran it through, ev'n from my boyish days, Of hair-breadth 'fcapes in th' imminent deadly breach; And fold to flavery; of my redemption thence, And with it all my travel's history: Wherein of antres vaft, and deferts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whofe heads touch heav'n, It was my hent to speak.-All these to hear Would Defdemona feriously incline. But ftill the house-affairs would draw her hence, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That That my youth fuffer'd. My ftory being done, She fwore, in faith, 'twas ftrange, 'twas paffing ftrange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wond'rous pitiful She wifh'd the had not heard it- -yet fhe wish'd And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, SHAKESPEAR BOOK BOOK III. DIDACTIC PIECES. Ο Ν CHAP I MODESTY. I KNOW no two words that have been more abused by the different and wrong interpretations which are put upon them, than these two, Modefty and Affurance. To fay, fuch a one is a modest man, fometimes indeed paffes for a good character; but at prefent is very often used to fignify a fheepish awkward fellow, who has neither good breeding, politenefs, nor any knowledge of the world. AGAIN, A man of affurance, though at firft only denoted a perfon of a free and open carriage, is now very usually applied to a profligate wretch, who can break through all the rules of decency and morality without a blush. I SHALL endeavour therefore in this effay to restore thefe words to their true meaning, to prevent the idea of Modesty from being confounded with that of Sheepishness, and to hinder Impudence from paffing for Afsurance. I |