I felt my reason re-ascend her throne.” 820
“My friend!” Sir Owen answer’d, “what became
Of your just anger?—when you saw their shame,
It was your triumph, and you should have shown
Strength, if not joy—their sufferings were their own.”—
“Alas, for them! their own in very deed!
And they of mercy had the greater need;
Their own by purchase, for their frailty paid—
And wanted heaven’s own justice human aid?
And seeing this, could I beseech my God