PITY.
Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
Oroonoko, Act ii. Sc. 2. T. SOUTHERNE.
My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks;
O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,
As you would beg, were you in my distress:
A begging prince what beggar pities not?
King Richard IV., Act i. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,
My mildness hath allayed their swelling griefs.
King Henry VI., Pt. III. Act iv. Sc. 8. SHAKESPEARE.
Pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Timon of Athens, Act iii. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast
Where love has been received a welcome guest.
The Duenna, Act ii. Sc. 3. R.B. SHERIDAN.