I. “’Twas fraud and treason her destruction doomed.”
Rancorous Despite,
Disloyal Treason and heart-burning Hate.
Spenser, Fairy Queen.
IV. “The sword
Which mighty Carlos at Pavía won,
The puny Ferdinand to France restored.”
Ὦ σπέρμ’ Ἀχιλλέως, τἄλλα μὲν πάρεστί σοι
Πατρῷ’ ἑλέσθαι τῶν δ’ ὅπλων κείνων ἀνὴρ
Ἄλλος κρατύνει νυν, ὁ Λαέρτου γόνος.—
Soph. Philoct. 364.
“Oh, born of Achilles! the rest of what pertained to thy father thou mayst take; but these arms another now possesses—Laertes’ son!” Such was the answer of Ulysses to Neoptolemus, when the latter sought the arms of Achilles, and such should have been the reply of Ferdinand to Napoléon.