Frognal.
"_Oh! Leoline_," _&c._ (Vol. v., pp. 78. 138.).--
"Oh! Leolyn, be obstinately just;
Indulge no passion, and deceive no trust:
Let never man be bold enough to say,
Thus, and no farther, shall my passion stray:
The first crime, past, compels us into more,
And guilt grows _fate_, that was but choice, before."
_Athelwold_, a Tragedy, by Aaron Hill.
Act V. Scene: The Garden.
These lines were first quoted by Madan, in his translation of Juvenal,
as a note on the words--
"Nemo repente fuit turpissimus."--Juv. _Sat._ ii. 83.
He prefaced the lines by confessing that he could not recollect where he
had met with them; but Gifford, in his translation of Juvenal (3rd
edition, 1817), assigns them to "_Athelwold_, a forgotten tragedy by
Aaron Hill." I have referred to the play, for the sake of obtaining a
correct copy of the quotation, and a reference to Act and Scene.