[60]: What, you are my rival, then! And therefore you shall stay and keep the door for me, whilst I go in for you; but when I'm gone, if you dare to stir off from this very board, or breath the least murmuring accent, I'll cut her throat first; and if you love her, you will not venture her life. Nay, then I'll cut your throat too, and I know you love your own life at least.... Not a word more, lest I begin my revenge on her by killing you.
[61]: Here, madam, I never left yet my wench unpaid.
[62]:
Belial came last, than whom a spirit more lewd
Fell not from heaven or more gross to love
Vice for itself.
Who more oft than he
In temples and at altars, when the priest
Turns atheist, as did Eli's sons who fill'd
With lust and violence the house of God:
In court and palaces he also reigns,
And in luxurious cities, when the noise
Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers,
And injury and outrage; and when night
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
(Milton, liv. I.)
[63]: Voir toutes les pièces historiques de Shakspeare.
[64]: 1654.
[65]: 1660.
[66]: Pepys, 1663.
[67]: Grammont.