“Tragedy never quits the world--it surrounds us everywhere. We have
but to look, wakeful and vigilant, abroad; and, from the age of
Pelops to that of Borgia, the same crimes, though under different
garbs, will stalk in our paths.”--SIR E. BULWER LYTTON.
“Murder?”
“Murder most foul, as in the best it is; But this most foul, strange,
and unnatural.”--SHAKSPEARE.
LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.
1853.
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Dedicated, by Permission,