And she burst into sobs with the despairing vehemence with which people bewail disasters they feel they have themselves occasioned.
Francis Meres (Palladis Tamia, 1598) mentions him in conjunction with many great names among "the most passionate, among us, to bewail and bemoan the perplexities of love."
Colfax did not cease to bewail the hardship which her dear boy was forced to endure.