was always to express himself in this Stile:

    'Tis true,

     My Sword has often reek'd in

    Phrygian

     Blood

    ,

    And carried Havock through your Royal Kindred:

    But you, fair Princess, amply have aveng'd

     Old

    Priam's

     vanquish'd House: And all the Woes,

    I brought on them, fall short of what I suffer.

   This Character wou'd not touch at all: 'Twou'd soon be perceiv'd, that true Passion seldom makes Use of such Comparisons, and that there is very little Proportion between the real Fires which consumed

    Troy

   , and the amorous Fires of

    Pyrrhus

   ; between the Havock he made amongst

    Andromache

   's Kindred and the Cruelty she shews him.

    Chamont

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