Pallid and stunned, he turned in affright to Beatrice, who comforted him as a mother comforts a child that wants breath to speak.

We may imagine her affright, When the king's daughter is in sight.

To help his courage and her own she forced herself to gaze straight into his eyes, but reading the affright in hers he stood dumb and turned red.

With smiting pity he saw her affright.

"The first who knew the accident which had befallen their king were the Pans and Satyrs who inhabited the country about Chemmis (Panopolis); and they immediately acquainting the people with the news gave the first occasion to the name Panic Terrors, which has ever since been made use of to signify any sudden affright or amazement of a multitude.