For sanguinary laws were never made above.[217a] }
If you condemn that prince of tyranny,
Whose mandate forced your Gallic friends to fly,[218]
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Make not a worse example of your own, }
Or cease to rail at causeless rigour shown, }
And let the guiltless person throw the stone. }
His blunted sword your suffering brotherhood
Have seldom felt; he stops it short of blood:
But you have ground the persecuting knife,