revenge

therefore the winds piping to us in vain

as in revenge have suck’d up from the sea

contagious fogs which falling in the land

hath every pelting river made so proud

that they have overborne their continents

the ox hath therefore stretch’d his yoke in vain,

the ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn

hath rotted ere his youth attain’da beard ;

the fold stands empty in the drowned field

and crows are fatted with the murrion flock.

the fairy queen titania in a midsummer night’s dream, II, 1 willie S. 1598