Miserable ingrate, receive the just requital of thy selfish disobedience!"

But the reflections, often striking, are seldom absolutely fresh: that beginning, The mind, which is immortal, makes itself Requital for its good or evil thoughts, Is its own origin of ill and end, And its own place and time, is transplanted from Milton with as little change as Milton made in transplanting it from Marlowe.

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.

But though he veiled his resentment under this mask of indifference at the time, he afterwards avowed that the exquisite character of Zimri in "Absalom and Achitophel" was laboured with so much felicitous skill as a requital in kind to the author of the "Rehearsal.