Crossword-Solution: RIPP 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Sir Hugh by the side of the dead man knelt, Said, "Full well these features I know, We have faced each other where blows were dealt, And he was a stalwart foe; I had rather have met him hilt to hilt Than have found him lying low." He turn'd the body up on its face, And never a word was spoken, While he ripp'd the doublet, and tore the lace, And tugg'd--by the self-same token,-- And strain'd, till he wrench'd it out of its place, The dagger-blade that was broken.

Lucina lent not me her aid, But took me in my throes, That from me was Posthumus ripp’d, Came crying ’mongst his foes, A thing of pity.

Satrius Secundus, and Pinnarius Natta, The great Sejanus’ clients: there be two, Know more than honest counsels; whose close breasts, Were they ripp’d up to light, it would be found A poor and idle sin, to which their trunks Had not been made fit organs.

But OEnomas received the Cretan’s stroke; The forceful spear his hollow corslet broke, It ripp’d his belly with a ghastly wound, And roll’d the smoking entrails on the ground.

Lives there a man whom Satire cannot reach? Lives there a man who calmly can stand by, And see his conscience ripp'd with steady eye? When Satire flies abroad on Falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to Truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.