Your all-dispensing power protects you now.[229]

Hold, said the Hind, 'tis needless to explain;

You would postpone me to another reign;

Till when, you are content to be unjust:

Your part is to possess, and mine to trust;

A fair exchange proposed, of future chance

For present profit and inheritance.

Few words will serve to finish our dispute;

Who will not now repeal, would persecute.

To ripen green revenge your hopes attend,