And as his loyalty had met Such ill requital from the King, He called his page and bade him straight A limner deft before him bring.

The one-sided deed of good or ill is a disturbance, the removal of which demands a corresponding requital.

She would not keep him in suspense: it would not be fairit would be a cruel requital of his love and generosity.

He becomes occasionally obscure from too great fondness for compressed brevity; but still, the labor of poring over Shakespeare's lines will invariably meet an ample requital.

This compliment met with a handsome requital; for Johnson, soon after, having occasion to speak of Beattie, in his Life of Gray, called him a poet, a philosopher, and a good man.

But of all payment, that in kind is least gratifying to a poverty-struck bard, and the courtly patrons of Dryden were in no haste to make him more substantial requital.

Nay, thou shalt not escape my questioning!One comfort still is left me in my grief, And only one: our wretched plight shows clear That gods still rule in Heaven, and mete out To guilty men requital, late or soon.