...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...afraid that girls with spits, and boys with stones, should slay him in puny battle [4.4.5]; when the other crosses my imagination, I remember the prodigy...

...malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or an incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for...glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him.' — ED.] Cuckow, Cuckow : O word of feare, 991 Vnpleafmg to a married eare. Winter. When Ificles hang...

...an assassin or an incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay nutter, and returns for more; the other bites like a viper,...glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him.' In the present instance the chance was too good for Edwards to lose; accordingly (p. 100) he shows...

...Vindicated one is reminded of what Dr Johnson says of Heath and the latter's criticisms of Warburton : he ' bites like a viper and would be glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him.' — ED. 10, ii. Law . . . Custome] CAPELL'S assertion (p: 173) that these refer to the laws and customs...

...starvation. [Johnson in his Preface says in reference to Heath's attacks on Warburton that the assailant 'bites like a viper, and would be glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him.' In the present instance the malignant serpent might have added to the rancor of his bite had he but...