55 With sweet concern the pitying beauty mourns, And sooths with smiles the jealous pair by turns.

Adv. truly &c (really) 494; in plain words &c 703; in truth, with truth, of a truth, in good truth; as the dial to the sun, as the needle to the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth^, in good earnest; unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth^, sooth to say^, bona fide, in foro conscientiae [Lat.]; without equivocation; cartes sur table, from the bottom of one's heart; by my troth &c (affirmation) 535.

His gentle spirit, love's soft power possest, 65 And stamp'd Alzira's image on his breast; Alzira, form'd each tenderness to prove, That sooths in friendship, and that charms in love.

He endeavours, indeed, commonly to strike by the force and vigour of his dialogue, but he never executes his purpose better, than when he tries to sooth by softness.