}

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