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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Scourge
 
Thou tamer of the human breast;
Whose iron scourge and torturing hour
The bad affright, afflict the best!
        Gray.—Hymn to Adversity, Line 2.		  1
        When the scourge
Inexorably, and the torturing hour,
Calls us to penance.
        Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 90.		  2
 
 
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