Tormentress

Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentresse of glory and honour.

But if the victim Lavinia offers a prime example, her tormentress Tamora provides a no less striking model of another kind.

"Tell me," I repeated, but, alas ! miserably out of tune. My confusion rapidly increased, when the fair tormentress, turning towards me, said, perhaps it is my fault — I am not playing correctly?"