"He repenteth mightily of what he hath said," they say to the Press, "and hath entered unto the land of Rehab, there to rend his garments and gnash his teeth and donate to B'nai B'rith".
He repeated the threat of the Holyrood parliament defying Westminster's sovereignty, saying: "If the Westminster gang reneges on the pledges made in the campaign, they will discover that hell hath no fury like this nation scorned".
Mr Salmond said that if the "Westminster gang" reneged on their pledge for more powers, they would find that "Hell hath no fury like this nation scorned".
They sang a furious "Surely he hath borne our griefs" and an "All we like sheep have gone astray" of rollicking, almost celebratory intensity, egged on by a muscular, unrelenting orchestra.
In 1610 Francis Bacon wrote: "He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief".
Plus Elizabeth had turned Phillip down years earlier, after making him wait a long time for an answer; hell hath no fury like a man spurned, as they say.
Shakespeare's deliberate abstention from the customary "and they all lived happily ever after" conclusion of the genre is remarkable: "Jack hath not Jill".
When Joab and all the host that was with him were come, they told Joab, saying, Abner the son of Ner came to the king and he hath sent him away, and he is gone in peace.
