'Note,' continues the record, 'In this play, Mr. Otway the poet having an inclination to turn actor; Mrs. Behn gave him the King in this play for a probation part, but he being not us'd to the stage, the full house put him to such a sweat and tremendous agony, being dash'd, spoilt him for an actor.' To quote Mr. Gosse's excellent and classic essay on Otway:'The choice of the part showed the kindly tact of the shrewd Mrs. Behn.

Moreover, thou'rt quick and slow in thy gait, sighing gustily off and onso it is I do sweat for thee.

quoth Roger, wiping sweat from him, "yonder certes was Hob-gob!

All a-sweat was he, and bleeding from the hair, while his mighty chest heaved and laboured with his running.

"Aha, lord Beltane!" cried Ulf, wiping sweat and blood from him, "there be no moreleft to smite, see you.

A running of swift feet and Walkyn sprang betwixt them, his face grimed with dust and sweat, his armour gone, his great axe all bloody in his hand: "Master!"

"So needs must I stifle and sweat within closed casque!"

It exacts much of youmakes you, for each page you turn, pay with the sweat of your brain.

Their skin was blackened by sweat and coal dust; soaked singlets, tight like gloves, clung to their lean bodies.

However she might sweat and pant, she liked the glorious pace even better than her rider.

Thus the sweat glands of the skin secrete the perspiration as their secretion, the lachrymal glands of the eyes the tears as theirs.

It was soon found that the cells of the more familiar glands, like the sweat or tear glands, resembled the cells of the more mysterious structures named the thyroid in the neck, or adrenal in the abdomen, of which the function was unknown.

" And still they struggled hardstill sweat and blood Poured down at every strain.

" Bud saw the sweat start on his skin as he tried to pull the injured foot towards him.

Regardless of the heat Skinny had ridden hard and his horse was a lather of sweat.

Parker swung back the heavy gate at the corral entrance and the dozen colts, sweat streaks on heads and backs and bellies where hackamore, saddle and cinches told of the lessons of the afternoon, pushing and jamming and with a clatter of hoofs, whirled out to freedom, around the stable and down a lane into an open meadow.

Old Heck, Parker and the cowboys stopped at the ditch, pitched their hats on the grass and dipping water from the ditch scoured the dust and sweat from their faces and hands.

she tid not hesitate toto" The little man's face was bathed in sweat at the memory of that degradation, which his tongue refused to describe.

And Stanley relates that a watch with its constant ticking sent the bravest of Congo chiefs into a cold sweat of agonizing fear; on discovering which, the explorer had but to draw his Waterbury and threaten to turn the whole bunch into crocodiles, and at once they got busy and did his bidding.

If the exercise be vigorous and the weather hot, a profuse sweat ensues, the rapid evaporation of which cools the body.

By the skin, in the shape of sweat and insensible perspiration, there is cast out about 23 ounces, of which 99 per cent is water; and by the lungs about 34 ounces, 10 of which are water and the remainder carbon dioxid.

Now if we omit an estimate of the undigestible remains of the food, we find that the main bulk of what daily leaves the body consists of water, carbon dioxid, and certain solid matters contained in solution in the renal secretion and the sweat.

In such a sweat and such a heat, With all that mud-upon your feet!

His and a dancing-school are inseparable adjuncts, and are bound, though both stink of sweat most abominable, neither shall complain of annoyance.

A scholar he pretends himself, and says he hath sweat for it, but the truth is he knows Cornelius far better than Tacitus.