Restraint
The word restraint has several meanings:
- the emotional discipline of self-restraint[?]
- handcuffs, shackles and other forms of physical restraint
- the act of employing physical restraints
See also:
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No, the fond deceit is vain.
Lelius, Florus, Cyprian.
Florus did I not detest?
[She pauses at Cyprian's name and resumes for a time her unquiet manner.
That he vanished from my eyes,
Where he went I do not know.html">know.
Love e'er lit, ne'er dared to glow
Yes, for since I said that he
Never more my face to see,
[She grows calmer.
That a man so widely known
When he pays at such a cost
[She becomes troubled again.
The same pity I should give
Who in separate dungeons live,
[She grows calmer.
If my pity is enough
Still your promptings press me so,
Where he is, if I could know,
SCENE VI.
The Demon and JUSTINA.
DEMON. Come, and I will tell thee where.
JUSTINA. Who art thou who has procured
Though the entrance is secured?
Art thou but delusion's cheat?
DEMON. No, not so; but having known
I have sought thee here alone,
Whither Cyprian has flown.
JUSTINA. Then thou'lt reach not thy intent;
Which my thought.html">thought doth so torment,
It will never my consent.
DEMON. But in thought to enter in
Since accomplished is the sin:--
What the wish desired to win.
JUSTINA. Even in this desponding hour,
Thy suggestion comes to nought,--
But my act is in my power.html">power.
Free to pause or to pursue,
For it is one thing to do,
Drawn from a profounder source,
How resist the double force
My free will suffices me.
DEMON. But my power will it excel.
JUSTINA. Then the will no more were free
[Attempts to draw her with him, but cannot move her.
JUSTINA. Ah! the bliss were bought too dear.
DEMON. It is peace, serene and sweet.
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