Dear heart, too dearly hast thou bought my love; Extremely rated at too high a price!

'Tis a fate, in sooth, Thou richly hast deserved! MEDEA.

THOAS A word momentous calmly hast thou spoken.

How gracefully hast thou thy task perform'd, The watchful tender mother, matchless wife; All woman boaststhou hast indeed adorn'd Thine the high merit of an useful life.

Hast thou bethought thee of this, or hast thou yielded, heedlessly, to a sudden and youthful impulse?" "Of all this have I thought," said Adelheid, eagerly; "whatever may be the injustice of others, thou hast none to fear from me.

Not to thee I spoke, for though Humanly thou hast that name, Thou hast forfeited thy claim: I that sweet address now owe Unto him whose holier aim Kindled in my heart a flame Which shall there for ever glow, Woke within me a new soul That thou 'rt powerless to control Generated a new life Safe against thy hand or knife: Him a father's name I give Who indeed has made me live, Not to him whose tyrant will Only has the power to kill.

Justly hast thou cautioned mankind not to impute thy conduct to rashness or enthusiasm.

When worn with Sickness oft hast thou With Health renew'd my Face, And when in Sins and Sorrows sunk Revived my Soul with Grace.

Didst take of last year's summer More than summer saw? Or hast thou stolen frost-flakes Secretly at night?

God of heaven, how severely hast thou punished me! Arnold.

Thinkest, on thy strength relying, That thou hast me in a strait?

Thou hast toiled for fifty years And what hast thou now but thy dusty tears?

Not vainly hast thou turn'd To me thy countenance in flaming fire: Gavest me glorious nature for my realm, And also power to feel her and enjoy; Not merely with a cold and wondering glance, Thou dost permit me in her depths profound, As in the bosom of a friend to gaze.

Let vs hast to heare it, And call the Noblest to the Audience.

Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us to carry us out of Egypt?'

For by the Holy Cross thou assuredly hast not long to live!

And wisely hast thou counseled, Rhadamanth, Call in Belphegor to me presently; [One of the furies goes for BELPHEGOR.

Thou bear'st Enough, and more, the burthen of that fault; Bitterly hast thou paid, and still art paying That rigid score.