But then, like fencers, they were equal still, -
Both lost in danger what they gain’d in skill;
Each heart a keener kind of rancour gain’d,
And, paining more, was more severely pain’d,
And thus by both was equal vengeance dealt,
And both the anguish they inflicted felt.
TALE XIII.
JESSE AND COLIN.
Then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they
think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts