Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical nit!

Salusbury's own poetry may have been published in Parry's collection in the section entitled the "patron's pathetical posies", though this has been disputed.

Rutilius Rufus himself blamed also Servius Galba, because he used pathetical devices to excite compassion of the audience, when Lucius Scribonius sued him in a trial.

Together with Sinetes dompe" The "patron's pathetical posies" have been said to be verses by Salusbury himself, but G. Blakemore Evans argues that they are by Parry, characterised by his typical heavy use of alliteration and word repetition.

Her mother was grief-stricken but That same Lord's Day in the afternoon my daughter Elizabeth (whom God gave me June 81658) to our great satisfaction and comfort suddenly broke out in a flood of tears and most pathetical vehement desires after God and his grace.

Matthew Griffith chaplain to Charles I was rector from 1640 until 1642, when he was removed from the post and imprisoned after preaching a sermon entitled "A Pathetical Persuasion to Pray for Publick Peace" in St Paul's Cathederal.