That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end: but now they rise again,
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,
And push us from our stools.
SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth.
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PETER GRIMES.
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.
OLD Peter Grimes made fishing his employ,