And marked your progress in the people's hearts.

Whose patience is the effect of stinted power,

But treasures vengeance for the fatal hour;

And if remote the peril he can bring,

Your present danger's greater from the king.

Let not a parent's name deceive your sense,

Nor trust the father in a jealous prince!

Your trivial faults if he could so resent,

To doom you little less than banishment.

What rage must your presumption since inspire?