text:  A wife carried off--the retaliation--an invasion or siege--a fair captive withheld from ransom--a displeased God sending a plague--a high prince wronged offended sullenly withdrawn to his tent--war prosperous and adverse--a dear friend lost and wailed--a general by his death reconciled--that death avenged--a dead son redeemed by his father and mourned by his people --To receive all this sufferance into the heart's depths wants no specific association--no grounding historical knowledge