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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.