Whitney also has the lines to the praise of Stephen Limbert, Master of Norwich School (p. 173),— “Our writing in the duste, can not indure a blaste; But that which is in marble wroughte, from age to age, doth laste.” It is but justice to Shakespeare to testify that at times his judgment respecting injuries rises to the full height of Christian morals. The spirit Ariel avows, that, were he human, his “affections would become tender” towards the shipwrecked captives on whom his charms had been working (_Tempest_, act v. sc. 1, l. 21, vol. i. p. 64); and Prospero enters into his thought with strong conviction,— “Hast thou, which art but air, a touch, a feeling Of their afflictions, and shall not myself, One of their kind, that relish all as sharply, Passion as they, be kindlier moved than thou art? Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, Yet with my nobler reason ’gainst my fury Do I take part: the rarer action is In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent, The sole drift of my purpose doth extend Not a frown further.” The subject in this connection finds a fitting conclusion from the words of a later writer, communicated to me by the Rev. T. Walker, M.A., formerly of Nether Tabley, in which a free forgiveness of injuries is ascribed to the world’s great and blessed Saviour,— “Some write their wrongs on marble, He more just Stoop’d down serene, and wrote them in the dust, Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth, quite banished from his mind, There secret in the grave He bade them lie, And grieved, they could not ’scape the Almighty’s eye.” [Illustration: _Whitney. Reprint, 1866, p. 431._] ----- Footnote 153: See a most touching account of a she-hear and her whelps in the _Voyage of Discovery to the North Seas_ in 1772, under Captain C. J. Phipps, afterwards Lord Mulgrave. Footnote 154: “Zodiacvs Christianvs, seu signa 12, _diuinæ Prædestinationis, &c., à Raphaele Sadelero_, 12mo, p. 126, Monaci CD. DCXVIII.” Footnote 155: See also the Emblems of Camerarius (pt. iii. edition 1596, Emb. 47), where the turkey is figured to illustrate “RABIE SVCCENSA TVMESCIT,”—_Being angered it swells with rage._ “_Quam deforme malum ferventi accensa furore Ira sit, iratis Indica monstrat avis,_”— “How odious an evil to the violent anger may be Inflamed to fury.—the Indian bird shows to the angry.” Footnote 156: See also other passages from the _Georgics_,— “Ut, cum prima novi ducent examina reges Vere suo.” iv. 21. “Sin autem ad pugnam exierint, nam sæpe duobus Regibus incessit magno discordia motu.” iv. 67. Description of the kings (iv. 87–99),—