Than it would pierce a peasant's. Have a care!

The eagle that would seize the poor man's lamb

Must dread the poor man's vengeance; darts there are

Can reach you in your eyrie,—ay, and hands

That will not grieve to hurl them. Get thee gone!"

Left alone with himself, he soliloquizes,—

"And yet I slew him not! But—but—'twill come!

It heaps my shame to heighten my revenge;

And I will feast it fully. Would 'twere here,

Here now! Oh, my arm aches, and every pulse