...thy tongue to tell thy errand, pv'n fuch a man, fo faint, fo fpiritlefs, So dull, fo dead in look, fo woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt ; But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue ; And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'ft it....

...who was no other than Miss Nugent, " so dull,. so spiritless, so woe-begone, drew Priam's curtains, in the dead of night* and would have told him half his Troy was burned; but Priam found the news. ere he his tongue !"- — " My Lord," said Latimer, " I will be obliged...

...brother? Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull,...Percy's death, ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say,—Your son did thus, and thus; Your brother, thus; so fought the noble Douglas; Stopping my greedy...

...time to speak, but says, ' The whiteness of thy cheeks Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand ; Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull,...dead in look, so woe-be-gone, Drew Priam's curtain at the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt 5 But Priam found the fire, ere...

...woe-be-gone, ,( Drew Priam's curtain at the dead of night, And wonld have told him half his Troy was burnt ; But Priam found the fire, ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'st it.' The image in this place is wonderfully noble and great ; yet this man in all this is but rising towards...

...a man, sri faint, co spintlcss, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-be-gone, Dr iv Priam's curtain at the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt ; But Piiam found the fire, ere he his tongue, And I my Percy's death, ere thou report's! it."...

...Henry-the-fourth, is well known : Even fuch a man, fo faint, fo fpiritlefs, So dull, fo dead-in-look, fo wobegone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, And would have told him half his Troy was burnt. I have been allured there is in print a French tranflatioti of this play, whofe author has been...

...brother ? Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull,...Troy was burn'd : But Priam found the fire, ere he is tongue, And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, — Your son did...

...brother ? Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. ' Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull,...Troy was burn'd : But Priam found the fire, ere he is tongue, And I my Percy's death, ere thou report'st it. This thou would'st say, — Your son did...

...seems to be the right word, and our author again uses it in King Henry IV, P. II, Act I, sc. iii: " Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, " So dull, so dead in look, so woe -begone." Steevens. So also, in Greene's Dorastus and Faumia: " — if thou marry in age, thy wife's...