Note 625 — THE ARGUMENT.
Reading edition
Careless readers may misapprehend the sense. "Pain" here means punishment, pœna.—Holt White.
Like a verse of Drummond's:
The grief was common, common were the cries.—Wakefield.
Heloisa to Abelard: "You alone expiated the crime common to us both. You only were punished though both of us were guilty."