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_Dor._ Haste to attend Almeyda:--For your sake
Your father is forgiven; but to Antonio
He forfeits half his wealth. Be happy both;
And let Sebastian and Almeyda's fate
This dreadful sentence to the world relate,--
That unrepented crimes, of parents dead,
Are justly punished on their children's head.
Footnotes:
1. This whimsical account of the Slave-market is probably taken from
the following passage in the "Captivity and escape of Adam Elliot,
M.A."--"By sun-rising next morning, we were all of us, who came
last to Sallee, driven to market, where, the Moors sitting
taylor-wise on stalls round about, we were severally run up and
down by persons who proclaimed our qualities or trades, and what
might best recommend us to the buyer. I had a great black who was
appointed to sell me; this fellow, holding me by the hand, coursed
me up and down from one person to another, who called upon me at
pleasure to examine what trade I was of, and to see what labour my
hands had been accustomed to. All the seamen were soon bought up,
but it was mid-day ere I could meet with a purchaser."--See _A
modest Vindication of Titus Oates_, London, 1682.
2. The knight much wondered at his sudden wit;
And said, The term of life is limited,
Ne may a man prolong nor shorten it;
The soldier may not move from watchful sted,
Nor leave his stand until his captain bed.
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