For something better, if not wholly good;
His Country's wrongs and his despair to save her
Had stung him from a slave to an enslaver.
LIV.
The love of power, and rapid gain of gold,
The hardness by long habitude produced,
The dangerous life in which he had grown old,
The mercy he had granted oft abused,
The sights he was accustomed to behold,
The wild seas, and wild men with whom he cruised,