despair
“Unless I be relieved by prayer—And my ending is,”
THE TEMPEST, Epilogue, 15.
“This alludes to the old stories told of the despair of
necromancers in their last moments, and of the efficacy of the prayers of their friends
for them”
(WARBURTON)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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