," "
the merited contempt
," "
the scorn
," and the "
meanness
," which this impudent young man dared to attribute to Mr. Scott, appear to have been a mere anticipation of his own future proceedings; and thus,
"—Even-handed Justice
Commends the ingredients of his poison'd chalice
To his own lips."
How he now likes the taste of it we do not know; about as much, we suspect, as the "incestuous, murderous, damned Dane" did, when
Hamlet