"Like an oak,
Nurs'd on feracious Algidum, whose boughs
Still stronger shoot beneath the rigid axe
By loss, by slaughter, from the steel itself
E'en force and spirit drew."
He has, elsewhere, two other reminiscences of the same passage, once in the third part of Liberty—
"Every tempest sung
Innoxious by, or bade it firmer stand"—
and once in Sophonisba (Act V. sc. ii.):—
"Thy rooted worth