Their long-worn chain, what ravage will they make!
In vain will prudence then contend with pride,
And reason vainly bid revenge subside;
Anger will not to meek persuasion bend,
Nor to the pleas of hope or fear attend; 100
What curb shall, then, in their disorder’d race, }
Check the wild passions? what the calm replace? }
Virtue shall strive in vain; and has he help in grace? }
While yet the wife with pure discretion ruled,
The man was guided, and the mind was school’d;