Imagine not he’d stoop to mortal sin.
Can holy saint have tainted heart within?
The trial of the fire, and of the flame,
Is but to cleanse pure gold from every blame.205
So too, temptation on us all is sent,
To part the good from those of bad intent.
Had he not acted thus by God’s command,
No prince, a wolf he’d been, rav’ning the land.
From lust, greed, foul caprice, his soul was free;
So did God will, whate’er the cause may be.