Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Fiend
So speak the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant’s plea, excus’d his devilish deeds.
Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 393.
I pull in resolution; and begin to doubt.
Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 5. (To himself.)