Furthermore, I began to wish for the honors usually paid to me by ladies, because of their gracious courtesy, though, perhaps, they were rather the guerdon of my noble birth, being due to me therefor, thinking that if I appeared so magnificent to my beloved's eyes, he would take the more delight in beholding me.

But if in hell doth any place remain Of more esteem than is another room, I hope, as guerdon for my just desert, To have it for my detestable acts.

Had Glovotsky won this guerdon at Great Katharine's hands?

This is the guerdon due to drunkenness: Shame, sickness, misery follow excess. BAC.

Calm and free He faced the Sphinx, nor ever knew dismay, Nor bowed to externalities the knee, Nor took a guerdon from the fleeting day; But dwelt on earth in that eternity Where Truth and Beauty shine with blended ray.

The busy mart let Justice still control, Weighing the guerdon to the toil!What then? A god alone claims joyall joy is his, Flushing with unsought light the cheeks of men.