Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
[Stanza cxiii.] line 9.
"——If't be so,
For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind."
Macbeth, [act iii. sc. 1, line 64].
24.
O'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve.
[Stanza cxiv.] line 7.
It is said by Rochefoucault, that "there is always something in the misfortunes of men's best friends not displeasing to them."
["Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous déplaît pas."—Appendice aux Maximes de La Rochefoucauld, Panthéon Littéraire, Paris, 1836, p. 460.]