He left to his vizier all state affairs,
And showed but little royal curiosity:
I know not if he had domestic cares—
No process proved connubial animosity;
Four wives and twice five hundred maids, unseen,
Were ruled as calmly as a Christian queen.[FV]
CXLIX.
If now and then there happened a slight slip,
Little was heard of criminal or crime;
The story scarcely passed a single lip—