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 More lives must yet be drain'd: Crowns, got with blood, must be with blood maintain'd: — and, in a subsequent situation, he says,— When I look back, 'tis terrible retreating; I cannot bear the thought, nor dare repent.

Here Mr. Cibber does but paraphrase the two passages cited above by the Remarks: and he expresses their meaning so justly, as to make it unnecessary to insist further on the nature of the apprehensions to which both these desperate usurpers are a prey.

In his dissertation, Mr. Steevens