I left my father’s house, and took with me
A chosen servant to conduct my steps:—
Yon trembling coward who forsook his master.
Journeying with this intent, I pass’d these towers,
And Heaven-directed, came this day to do
The happy deed that gilds my humble name.
This speech occurs in Act II of John Home’s tragedy “Douglas,” which was originally produced in Edinburgh, and was afterwards brought out at Covent Garden Theatre, London, on March 14, 1757.
This tragedy gave rise to a work entitled “Douglas, a tragedy, by John Home, reduced to rhyme in the broad Buchan dialect,” which few people of the present day would care to read, even if they could do so.
The Jew Stock-broker.
My name is Moses:—In theft-famed Rag Fair