Macbeth [Act III. Sc. 4. vv. 78-82].
The Father of Peter a Fisherman—Peter's early Conduct—His Grief for the old Man—He takes an Apprentice—The Boy's Suffering and Fate—A second Boy: how he died—Peter acquitted—A third Apprentice—A Voyage by Sea: the Boy does not return—Evil Report on Peter: he is tried and threatened—Lives alone—His Melancholy and incipient Madness—Is observed and visited—He escapes and is taken: is lodged in a Parish-house: Women attend and watch him—He speaks in a Delirium: grows more collected—His Account of his Feelings and visionary Terrors previous to his Death.
LETTER XXII.
PETER GRIMES.
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Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ;
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His wife he cabin'd with him and his boy,
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And seem'd that life laborious to enjoy.