His flight is occasioned rather by the malignity of his countrymen than by the enmity of the Egyptians.

  Where the soul sours, and gradual rancor grows,
  Imbitter’d more from peevish day to day.

Peace in their mouthes, and all rancor and vengeance in their hartes [hearts].

  For them the gracious Duncan have I murder’d;
  Put rancors in the vessel of my peace
  Only for them.

Her resentment against the king seems not to have abated.

Mrs. W. was in high dudgeon; her heels clattered on the red-tiled floor, and she whisked about the house like a parched pea upon a drum-head.

  If I can catch him once upon the hip,
  I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

Men of this character pursue a grudge unceasingly, and never forget or forgive.

  And since you ne’er provoked their spite,
  Depend upon’t their judgment’s right.

Marriage, matrimony, wedlock. (With this group compare the matrimonial group in Exercise C, above.)

Marriages are made in heaven.

Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

  Let me not to the marriage of true minds
  Admit impediments.

Marriage is the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man in proportion as he is unfit for the married state.

Matrimony—­the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

Wedlock’s a lane where there is no turning.

  What is wedlock forced, but a hell,
  An age of discord and continual strife?

Mercy, clemency, lenity, leniency, lenience, forbearance.

  Teach me to feel another’s woe,
  To hide the fault I see;
  That mercy I to others show,
  That mercy show to me.

  The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
  It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
  Upon the place beneath:  it is twice bless’d;
  It blesseth him that gives and him that takes;
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  And earthly power doth then show likest God’s
  When mercy seasons justice.

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch.

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than vigor.

All the fellows tried to persuade the Master to greater leniency, but in vain.

It will be necessary that this acceptance should be followed up by measures of the utmost lenience.

There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Pity, sympathy, compassion, commiseration, condolence.

  Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
  His pity gave ere charity began.