Nor set down aught in _malice_.
Every obstacle which partisan _malevolence_ could create he has had
to encounter.
His flight is occasioned rather by the _malignity_ of his countrymen
than by the enmity of the Egyptians.
Where the soul sours, and gradual _rancor_ grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.
Peace in their mouthes, and all _rancor_ and vengeance in their
hartes [hearts].
For them the gracious Duncan have I murder'd;
Put _rancors_ in the vessel of my peace
Only for them.
Her _resentment_ against the king seems not to have abated.
Mrs. W. was in high _dudgeon_; her heels clattered on the red-tiled
floor, and she whisked about the house like a parched pea upon a
drum-head.
If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient _grudge_ I bear him.
Men of this character pursue a _grudge_ unceasingly, and never forget
or forgive.
And since you ne'er provoked their _spite_,
Depend upon't their judgment's right.
. (With this group compare the
_matrimonial_ group in Exercise C, above.)
_Marriages_ are made in heaven.
Hasty _marriage_ seldom proveth well.
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his _marriage_.
Let me not to the _marriage_ of true minds
Admit impediments.
_Marriage_ is the best state for man in general; and every man is a
worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.
_Matrimony_--the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
_Wedlock's_ a lane where there is no turning.
What is _wedlock_ forced, but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
.
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That _mercy_ I to others show,
That _mercy_ show to me.
The quality of _mercy_ is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes;
* * * * *
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When _mercy_ seasons justice.
_Clemency_ is the surest proof of a true monarch.
_Lenity_ will operate with greater force, in some instances, than
vigor.
All the fellows tried to persuade the Master to greater _leniency_,
but in vain.
It will be necessary that this acceptance should be followed up by
measures of the utmost _lenien
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