Still he proceeds—“You make your prisons light,
Airy and clean, your robbers to invite;
And in such ways your pity show to vice,
That you the rogues encourage, and entice.”
For lenient measures James had no regard— 160
“Hardship,” he said, “must work upon the hard;
Labour and chains such desperate men require;
To soften iron you must use the fire.”
Active himself, he labour’d to express,
In his strong words, his scorn of idleness;