That all had witness’d, and amazed were all.
As he recover’d, to his mind it came,
“I owe to Satan this disgrace and shame:”
All the seduction now appear’d in view;
“Let me withdraw,” he said, and he withdrew:
No one withheld him, all in union cried,
E’en the avenger, - “We are satisfied:”
For what has death in any form to give,
Equal to that man’s terrors, if he live?
He lived in freedom, but he hourly saw