Boundless intemperance
In nature is a tyranny-it hath been
The untimely emptying of many a throne,
And fall of many kings.
MACBETH.
While Colonel Everard retreated in high indignation from the little refection, which Sir Henry Lee had in his good-humour offered, and withdrawn under the circumstances of provocation which we have detailed, the good old knight, scarce recovered from his fit of passion, partook of it with his daughter and guest, and shortly after, recollecting some silvan task, (for, though to little efficient purpose, he still regularly attended to his duties as Ranger,) he called Bevis, and went out, leaving the two young people together.
"Now," said the amorous Prince to himself, "that Alice is left without her lion, it remains to see whether she is herself of a tigre
