}
230
A stern stout churl, an angry overseer;
}
A tyrant fond of power, loud, lewd, and most severe.
Him the mild vicar, him the graver clerk,
Advised, reproved, but nothing would he mark,
Save the disgrace; "and that, my friends," said he,
"Will I avenge, whenever time may be."
And now, alas! 'twas time;—from man to man