Mother, hold you the basin, you the towel: I know your French hearts thirst for English blood; John, take the mallet; I will hold the knife, And when I bid thee smite, strike for thy life: Make a mark, surgeon.

Further Sixthly, this practice is perpetually haunted with most troublesome companions, inward regret and self-condemnation, fear and disquiet: the conscience of dealing so unworthily doth smite and rack him; he is ever in danger, and thence in fear to be discovered, and requited for it.

I tell thee, drummer, if thy drum thou smite, By heav'n, I'll send thy soul to hell's dark night.

"'Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; and let them reprove me, it shall,' as Solomon says, 'be an excellent oil.'" "I am glad," continued the woman, "to find you with a turned heart; but whaur is the Jezebel ye took in her place?

Prince, why wilt thou smite The smitten?