be thou desperate; One mischief brings another on his neck, As mighty billows tumble in the seas, Now, daughter, seest thou not how I amerce My wrath, that thus bereft thee of thy love, Upon my head?

In the opinion of Mr Moore, it probably owes something to the author's painful sensibility to the defect in his own foot; an accident which must, from the acuteness with which he felt it, have essentially contributed to enable him to comprehend and to express the envy of those afflicted with irremediable exceptions to the ordinary course of fortune, or who have been amerced by nature of their fair proportions.

V. fine, mulct, amerce, sconce, confiscate; sequestrate, sequester; escheat [Law]; estreat^, forfeit.

They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

That avenging the death of the servant, was neither imprisonment, nor stripes, nor amercing the master in damages, but that it was taking the master's life we infer.

19: "They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

19: "They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

That avenging the death of the servant, was neither imprisonment, nor stripes, nor amercing the master in damages, but that it was taking the master's life we infer.

19: "They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

19: "They shall amerce him in one hundred shekels," and in 2 Chron.

A freeman shall not be amerced for a small offence, but only according to the degree of the offence; and for a great crime according to the heinousness of it, saving to him his contenement; and after the same manner a merchant, saving to him his merchandise.

And a villein shall be amerced after the same manner, saving to him his wainage, if he falls under our mercy; and none of the aforesaid amerciaments shall be assessed but by the oath of honest men in the neighbourhood.

Earls and barons shall not be amerced but by their peers, and after the degree of the offence.

No ecclesiastical person shall be amerced for his lay tenement, but according to the proportion of the others aforesaid, and not according to the value of his ecclesiastical benefice.

The steward of the court calls all such as are bound to appear, with as low a voice as possible, giving no notice when he goes to execute his office; however, he that does not give an answer is deeply amerced.