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Pitty Griefe, for the calamity of another is PITTY; and ariseth from the imagination that the like calamity may befall himselfe; and therefore is called also COMPASSION, and in the phrase of this present time a FELLOW-FEELING: and therefore for Calamity arriving from great wickedness, the best men have the least Pitty; and for the same Calamity, those have least Pitty, that think themselves least obnoxious to the same.
Once, some years after Bernard's birth, she had called him into her room as she sat among her relics, and had shown him the daguerreotype. "It's pitty lady," the child had lisped, and she had caught him suddenly to her lean old breast, but he had broken into peevish cries and struggled free, tearing with his foot the ruffle of the swiss muslin gown.
Your white is Death, your milke white inocence, your black mourning, your orange spitefull, your flesh colour lascivious, your maides blush envied, your red is defiance, your gold is avaritious, your straw plenty, your greene hope, your sea greene inconstant, your violet religious, your willow forsaken. Sis. La. Tis pitty but there should be some bookes for our instruction in this art. De.
But I am not Satisfied: do you affect this gentlewoman? De. Hum. Cou. You will resolve, sir? De. As may become a stranger; ile not loose Thy friendship for all woman kind. Cou. He dares not owne you. Sis. I easilie forgive him; I should hate My selfe, if I depended on his pitty. Cou. Th'art a noble wench. Shall we leave of These jigs and speake our harts in earnest?
But the baby, now grown into a plump, healthy child, greeted her benefactress with nature's own grace, crowing, laughing, and calling, "Pitty lady; nice lady," with exuberant welcome. The inmates did not now depend for precarious warmth upon two logs, reaching across a dirty floor and pushed together, but a neat box, painted green, was filled with billets of wood.
As if a visible sign of assent had been asked, the setting sun suddenly dropped lower, touching into blazing glory the golden cross on the church, and threw its reflection upon the wall at the head of the bed just over the white face of the dead. The baby saw and pointed once again. "Pitty! Pitty! Papa, see!"
So that I see plainly 'tis better for you to trade with us than with the others; yet I will have pitty on this wretch, & will spare his life, though hee has a desire to goe unto our Ennemys." I caused a sword-blade to bee brought me, & I said unto him that spake, "Heere, take this, & begon to your brethren, the English; tell them my name, & that I will goe take them."
I therefore beg, Intreat, emplore, submissively hold up my hands To have his Kingly pitty & yours to lett me goe. Mac. Well, since we cannot win you to our service, We will not weane you from your Countryes love. The king, our lord, commands us here to give you A hundred pistoletts to beare you home. Pike.
"He's afraid we're plottin'," Pearl whispered. "Can't trust no one. He ain't howlin'. That's his natcheral voice when he's talkin' Rooshan. He don't know one English word, only 'Goo! But he'll say that every time. See now. How is a precious luvvy-duvvy? See the pitty man, pull um baby toofin!"
Now do I see it is possible that a womans teeth should be as troublesome as her tongue. Do. Oh, oh! Ri. I cannot choose but pitty her, that any woman should hold so much paine in a hollow tooth. Do. If my Mr. touched with so much compassion should rise and force me to bed with him, I must not cry out a rape; tis at the worst on my side but fornication in my owne defence. Ri. I prethe come to Bed.
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