Crossword-Solution: MURMURERS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Unhappy murmurers, that still repine (After th' Eclipse our Sun doth brighter shine), Recant your false grief, and your true joys know; Your blisse is endlesse, as you fear'd your woe! What fort'nate flood is this! what storm of wit! Oh, who would live, and not ore-whelm'd in it? No more a fatal Deluge shall be hurl'd: This inundation hath sav'd the world.

These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake.

This made him long for home, as loth to stay With murmurers and foes; He sighed for Eden, and would often say, ‘Ah! what bright days were those!’ Nor was heaven cold unto him; for each day The valley or the mountain Afforded visits, and still Paradise lay In some green shade or fountain.

They reminded the murmurers that they would not be the first people who had rebelled with success against the despotic rule of Columbus, and that the conduct of the Sovereigns on a former occasion afforded them some promise that those who rebelled again would receive something quite different from punishment.

The murmurers were loftily rebuked for their complaints, and reminded of the duty of obedient provinces to contribute at least as much for the defence of their masters as the rebels did in maintenance of their rebellion.