“In Peter’s heart, as daylight at length came,
The anguish grew, and he flushed deep for shame,
Though no man was there to behold him sin,
For now he recognized his own offence.
A noble heart no witness ever needs
To shame him, but is cowed by his own deeds,
Though only Heaven and earth watch in silence.”
- - from “Tears of Saint Peter,” (1587), by
Luigi Tansillo, quoted in Part I Chapter XXXIII of Cervantes’s Don Quixote
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