the latter caps it with—
He that dares drink, and for that drink dares die,
And knowing this, dares yet drink on, am I.
Again, while Almanzor says to his rival in love—
Thou dar'st not marry her, while I'm in sight;
With a bent brow, thy priest and thee I'll fright,—
Drawcansir, snatching the bowls of wine from the usurpers, cries—
Whoe'er to gulp one drop of this dare think,
I'll stare away his very power to drink.
The simile of the boar and the sow has often been quoted; it seems to have been always a favourite with our playgoing ancestors. In "The Conquest of Granada" we read:—
So two kind turtles, when a storm is nigh,
Look up, and see it gathering in the sky....
Perch'd on some dropping branch, they sit alone,
And coo and hearken to each other's moan.
Mr. Bayes imitated this in what he called "one of the most delicate, dainty similes in the world, egad":—
So boar and sow, when any storm is nigh,
Snuff up, and smell it gath'ring in the sky....
Pensive in mud they wallow all alone,
And snort and gruntle to each other's moan.