The Date of Virtue, Love and Peace was out;
He for a Man of Worth awhile was known,
And then the Devil came to claim his own.”—
“No more, my Brother! I must now prepare
The one sad Secret of my Soul to share;
To make my mystic Fortune understood,
And keep thee free from peril and from blood.— 140
But I must bind thee, Richard; thou must keep
The Peace, and let thy strong Resentment sleep!”
He gave Assent.