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ed a severe personal outrage, in consequence of a quarrel with which he had little individual concern. FOOTNOTES: [1] In "Repartees between Cat and Puss at a caterwauling, in the modern heroic way:" "_Cat_. Forbear, foul ravisher, this rude address; Canst thou at once both injure and caress? _Puss_. Thou hast bewitched me with thy powerful charms, And I, by drawing blood, would cure my harms. _C_. He that does love would set his heart a tilt, Ere one drop of his lady's should be spilt. _P_. Your wounds are but without, and mine within: You wound my heart, and I but prick your skin; And while your eyes pierce deeper than my claws, You blame the effect of which you are the cause. _C_. How could my guiltless eyes your heart invade, Had it not first been by your own betrayed? Hence 'tis, my greatest crime has only been (Not in mine eyes, but yours) in being seen. _P_. I hurt to love, but do not love to hurt. _C_. That's worse than making cruelty a sport. _P_. Pain is the foil of pleasure and delight, That sets it off to a more noble height. _C_. He buys his pleasure at a rate too vain, That takes it up beforehand of his pain. _P_. Pain is more dear than pleasure when 'tis past. _C_. But grows intolerable if it last," etc. [2] Life of Lope de Vega, p. 208. [3] Dryden was severely censured by the critics for his supernatural persons, and ironically described as the "man, nature seemed to make choice of to enlarge the poet's empire and to complete those discoveries others had begun to shadow. That Shakespeare and Fletcher (as some think) erected the pillars of poetry, is a grosse errour; this Zany of Columbus has discovered a poeticall world of greater extent than the naturall, peopled with Atlantick colonies of notionall creatures, astrall spirits, ghosts, and idols, more various than ever the Indians worshipt, and heroes more lawless than their savages."--_Censure of the Rota_. [4] His mistress having fallen in love with a disguised barber, a less polished rival exclaims,-- "_Sir Hum_. Nay, for my part, madam, if you must love a cudgelled barber, and take him for a valiant count, make much of him; I shall desist: there are more ladies, heaven be thanked. "_Trim_. Yes, sir, there are more ladies; but if any man affirms that my fair Dorinda has an equal, I thus fling down my glove, and do demand the combat for her honour.--This
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