In silence and humility.
To humble the malignant beast,
Himself now enter’d in the list,
And cried aloud: “Come, wolf! behold!
My hand as hostage thou shalt hold!
While round thy limbs the cord is laced,
Within thy mouth shall it be placed,
And lying at thy mercy there,
Nor trick nor fraud hast thou to fear.”
On Tyr’s presumption every god