XXVI Sermons, No. 26, Death's Duel, last sermon, February 15, 1631
“Neither you nor any man alive shall do this unpunished: no, you shall give recompense to me with your life-blood.”
As quoted by Macrobius in Saturnalia; Book VI, Chapter I
Compare: Tu tamen interea calido mihi sanguine poenas persolves amborum, Virgil, Aeneid, Book IX, line 422
Original
Nec pol homo quisquam faciet inpune animatus hoc nec tu; nam mi calido dabis sanguine poenas.
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Ennius 23
Roman writer -239–-169 BCRelated quotes
Samuel Johnson, letter to James Macpherson (20 January 1775), quoted in James Boswell Life of Johnson, Vol. I (1791), p. 449.
Criticism
Cabinet meeting (1841), as retold by John Alexander Tyler.
Letter to David Humphreys, inviting him to an indefinite stay at Mt. Vernon (10 October 1787), as published in Life and Times of David Humphreys (1917) by Frank Landon Humphreys, Vol. I, p. 426
1780s
The Golden Speech (1601)