"While round stern ministers of fate,
Pain and Disease and Sorrow, wait;"
and Otway, _Alcibiades_, v. 2: "Then enter, ye grim ministers of
fate." See also _Progress of Poesy_, ii. 1: "Man's feeble race," etc.
59. _Murtherous_. The obsolete spelling of _murderous_, still used in
Gray's time.
61. _The fury Passions_. The passions, fierce and cruel as the
mythical Furies. Cf. Pope, _Essay on Man_, iii. 167: "The fury
Passions from that blood began."