In years of youth the others seem’d to be,
Who had forsook the path of honesty—
Intent on mischief and misrule, but now
Remorse and horror sat upon their brow.
God grant them mercy! but the law decreed
That England of such demons should be freed;
And so in time all four were sent away
To end their lifetime in old “Bot’ny Bay,”—
The merited reward of infamy.
[224] Chief of the constabulary force at Ruttendell.