id,comments,provenance,dictionary,created_at,reviewed_on,work_id,theme,context,updated_at,metaphor,text 19674,"",Searching in Google Books,Coinage,2012-04-10 15:52:28 UTC,,7212,"","Act V, Scene ii",2012-04-10 15:52:28 UTC,"""Yet what infuses his mind unstain'd and pure? / Nurtur'd in venal, sycophantic schools-- / Eras'd each sterling virtue of the soul-- / Debas'd--new coin'd in flattery's servile mint, / He may become a pander to a prince.""","Though all is lost, and subjugated Spain Lies bleeding at the footstool of a king, I yet would live, for this young cherub's sake:-- Yet what infuses his mind unstain'd and pure?
Nurtur'd in venal, sycophantic schools--
Eras'd each sterling virtue of the soul--
Debas'd--new coin'd in flattery's servile mint,
He may become a pander to a prince
.
Ah!--thus to see Don Juan's son enslaved,
Shocks more than death in its most frightful form.
O guard him, angels--guard him, powers supreme,
From the contagion of each vulgar vice,
Or the more splendid guilt that stalks in courts!--
(V.ii, p. 165)"