Ant. * * He makes me angry : And at this time most easy 't is to do 't; When my good stars, that were my former guides,

Have empty left their orbs, and shot their fires

Into the abism of hell. If he mislike
My speech, and what is done; tell him, he has
Hipparchus, my enfranchis'd bondman,
whom

He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or torture,

As he shall like, to quit me: Urge it thou: Hence, with my stripes, begone.

Tim. I thank them; and would send

them back the plague,

Could I but catch it for them.

away,

And I will sit as quiet as a lamb.

K. J., IV: 1. 665.

Lear.

K. Hen. So, if a son, that is by his father sent about merchandise, do sinfully miscarry upon the sea, the imputation of his wickedness, by your rule, should be imposed upon his father that sent him or if a servant, under his master's command, transporting a sum of money, be assailed by robbers, and die in many irreconciled iniquities, you may call the business of the master, the author of the servant's damnation:- But this is not so: the king is not bound to answer the particular endings of his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the master of his servant; for they purpose not their death, when they purpose their services. Besides, there is no king, be his cause never so spotless, if it come to the arbitrement of swords, can try it out with all unspotted soldiers. Some, peradventure, have on them the guilt of premeditated and contrived murder; some, of beguiling virgins with the broken seals of perjury; some, making the wars their bulwark, that have before gored the gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery. Now, if these men have defeated the law, and outrun native punishment, though they can outstrip men, they have no wings to fly from God: war is his beadle, war is his vengeance; so that here men are punished, for before-breach of the king's laws, in now the king's quarrel: where they feared the death, they have borne life away; and where they would be safe, they perish: Then if they die unprovided, no more is the king guilty of their damnation than he was before guilty of those impieties for the which they are now visited. Every subject's duty is the king's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore

Under whose warrant, I impeach thy wrong; And, by whose help, I mean to chastise it. K. J., II: 1. 630.

REST.-Ignored in Peril.

2 Watch. What, will he not to bed?

1 Watch. Why, no: for he hath made a solemn vow

Never to lie and take his natural rest, Till Warwick, or himself, be quite suppress'd.

2 Watch. To-morrow then, belike, shall be the day,

If Warwick be so near as men report.

H. VI., 3 pt., IV: 3. 980.

-Its inevitable Demands.
War. Forspent with toil, as runners

with a race,

I lay me down a little while to breathe :
For strokes receiv'd, and many blows re-

paid,

Have robb'd my strong-knit sinews of their

strength,

And, spite of spite, needs must I rest awhile.

H. VI., 3 pt., II: 3. 966.

RETRIBUTION.-Belongs to God.

2 Murd. And that same vengeance doth he hurl on thee,

For false forswearing, and for murder too: Thou did'st receive the sacrament, to fight In quarrel of the house of Lancaster.

1 Murd. And, like a traitor to the name of God,

Didst break that vow; and, with thy treacherous blade,

Unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son. 2 Murd. Whom thou wast sworn to cherish and defend.

1 Murd. How canst thou urge God's dreadful law to us.

When thou hast broke it in such dear degree?

Clar. Alas! for whose sake did I that ill
deed?

For Edward, for my brother, for his sake:
He sends you not to murder me for this:
For in that sin he is as deep as I.
If God will be avenged for the deed,