’I found myself
As women wish to be who love their lords.’ 
Act i.

’He seldom errs
Who thinks the worse he can of womankind.’ 
Act iii.

‘Honour, sole judge and umpire of itself.’ 
Act iv.

’Unknown I die; no tongue shall speak of me. 
Some noble spirits, judging by themselves,
May yet conjecture what I might have proved,
And think life only wanting to my fame.’ 
Act v.

    ’An honest guardian, arbitrator just
     Be thou; thy station deem a sacred trust. 
     With thy good sword maintain thy country’s cause;
     In every action venerate its laws: 
     The lie suborn’d if falsely urg’d to swear,
     Though torture wait thee, torture firmly bear;
     To forfeit honour, think the highest shame,
     And life too dearly bought by loss of fame;
     Nor to preserve it, with thy virtue give
     That for which only man should wish to live.’

[Satires, viii. 79.]

For this and the other translations to which no signature is affixed, I am indebted to the friend whose observations are mentioned in the notes, pp. 78 and 399.  BOSWELL.  Sir Walter Scott says, ’probably Dr. Hugh Blair.’  I have little doubt that it was Malone.  ’One of the best criticks of our age,’ Boswell calls this friend in the other two passages.  This was a compliment Boswell was likely to pay to Malone, to whom he dedicated this book.  Malone was a versifier.  See Prior’s Malone, p. 463.

[971] I am sorry that I was unlucky in my quotation.  But notwithstanding the acuteness of Dr. Johnson’s criticism, and the power of his ridicule, The Tragedy of Douglas sill continues to be generally and deservedly admired.  BOSWELL.  Johnson’s scorn was no doubt returned, for Dr. A. Carlyle (Auto. p. 295) says of Home:—­’as John all his life had a thorough contempt for such as neglected his poetry, he treated all who approved of his works with a partiality which more than approached to flattery.’  Carlyle tells (pp. 301-305) how Home started for London with his tragedy in one pocket of his great coat and his clean shirt and night-cap in the other, escorted on setting out by six or seven Merse ministers.  ’Garrick, after reading his play, returned it as totally unfit for the stage.’  It was brought out first in Edinburgh, and in the year 1757 in Covent Garden, where it had great success.  ‘This tragedy,’ wrote Carlyle forty-five years later, ’still maintains its ground, has been more frequently acted, and is more popular than any tragedy in the English language.’ Ib. p. 325.  Hannah More recorded in 1786 (Memoirs, ii. 22), ’I had a quarrel with Lord Monboddo one night lately.  He said Douglas was a better play than Shakespeare could have written.  He was angry and I was pert.  Lord Mulgrave sat spiriting me up, but kept out of the scrape himself, and Lord Stormont seemed to enjoy the debate, but was shabby enough not to help me out.’