Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Pardon
Pardon it; the phrase is to the matter.
Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act V. Scene 1.
The offender never pardons.
Herbert.—Jacula Prudentum.
When by a pardon’d murd’rer blood is spilt,
The judge that pardon’d hath the greatest guilt.
Denham.—On Justice, Line 81.