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On deck, a few sailors mov'd about, red eyed and heavy. They show'd no surprise to see us, but nodded very friendly, with a smile for our strange complexions. Here again, as ever, did adversity mock her own image.
I pass'd him rapidly, climb'd into the shadow of the coach, and drew a long breath. Then ensued a hateful pause, as the great gates were unbarr'd. I gripp'd ray knees for impatience. The driver spoke a word to the porter, who came round to the coach door again. "To Mistress Finch's, is it not?" "Ay," I muttered; "and quickly." The coachman touched up his pair. The wheels mov'd; went quicker.
But as he struggled with thought and the burning confusion of impulse, Even as he mov'd in the scabbard his ponderous weapon, Athena Stood by, darting from heaven: for the white-arm'd Hera had sent her, She that had eyes on them both with a loving and equal concernment. Lighting behind him, she graspt at the thick fair curls of Peleides, Visible only to him, undiscover'd by all that surrounded.
I resolv'd however to conceal, if possible, the Terror I was in, and coming out of my Palanquin, I went to salute the Company, when I observ'd they retired from me in proportion as I advanced, and like a Vapour, or an Ignis fatuus, the Air being mov'd by my Motion, drove those which were directly opposite still before me.
As to the Second Objection brought from Councils and Fathers, if what is quoted were really design'd by them against the Theatre in general, yet it can have but little effect with the People, I mean the Men of Probity and Learning; for they are not to be mov'd by the Opinions of others no longer than those Opinions are agreeable to Reason: No Man ought to pay such a Respect either to Councils or Fathers, as to submit his Judgment contrary to his Reason.
This cruel procedure affects my heart while penning these lines. In his 23d year Elias was married, by the Friends' ceremony, to Jemima Seaman. His wife was an only child; the parents were well off for common people, and at their request the son-in-law mov'd home with them and carried on the farm which at their decease became his own, and he liv'd there all his remaining life.
Thus he works Othello up to a rage, and yet all the time pretends to be holding him back: I do see you're mov'd; I pray you not to strain my speech To grosser issues nor to larger reach Than to suspicion.
The latch mov'd up, when who should first come in, But, in his proper person, Lublerkin." On the other hand, it was customary in the North of England to rub a young woman with pease-straw should her lover prove unfaithful: "If you meet a bonnie lassie, Gie her a kiss and let her gae; If you meet a dirty hussey, Fie, gae rub her o'er wi' strae!"
A short bark from the dog, however, soon gave a new direction to the looks of both, and then the real object of his second warning became dimly visible. Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood, as any in Italy; and as soon mov'd to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved. Romeo and Juliet.
And that you may not be Startled, Pyrophilus, that I should Venture to say, that a Rough and Coiour'd Object may serve for a Speculum to Reflect the Artificial Rain-bow I have been mentioning, consider what usually happens in Darkned Rooms, where a Wall, or other Body conveniently Situated within, may so Reflect the Colours of Bodies, without the Room, that they may very clearly be Discern'd and Distinguish'd, and yet 'tis taken for granted, that the Colours seen in a Darkned Room, though they leave no Traces of themselves upon the Wall or Body that Receives them, are the True Colours of the External Objects, together with which the Colours of the Images are Mov'd or do Rest.