Sheridan.—Pizarro, Act I. Scene 1.
REFORM.—’Tis the talent of our English nation,
Still to be plotting some new reformation.
Dryden.—Prol. to Sophonisba.
I’ll have no more beggars. Fools shall have wealth, and the learned shall live by his wits. I’ll have no more bankrupts.
Geo. Chapman.—The Widow’s Tears, Act I. Scene 1.
REFRESHMENT.—“Before you begin,” said Peter Peebles, “I’ll thank you to order me a morsel of bread and cheese, or some could meat, or broth, or the like alimentary provision.”
Scott.—Redgauntlet, Letter 13.
Chafe the limb, and pour the fragrant oil.
Ibid.—Waverley, Chap. XX.
From room to room their eager view they bend:
Thence to the bath, a beauteous pile, descend;
Where a
bright damsel train attend the guests
With liquid odours, and embroider’d vests.
Pope.—Odyssey, Book IV. Line 57.
Your other task, ye menial train, forbear:
Now wash the stranger, and the bed prepare;
With splendid
palls the downy fleece adorn;
Up rising early with the purple morn,
His sinews shrunk with age, and stiff
with toil,
In the warm bath foment with fragrant oil.
Ibid.—Odyssey, Book XIX. Line 362.
REFRESHMENT.—The nymph dismiss’d him (odorous garments given),
And bath’d in fragrant oils that
breath’d of heaven.
Pope.—Odyssey, Book V. Line 335.
The train prepare a cruise of curious mould,
A cruise of fragrance, form’d of burnish’d gold;
Odour divine!
whose soft refreshing streams
Sleek the smooth skin, and scent the snowy limbs.
Ibid.—Odyssey, Book VI. Line 91.