Can never well discern the right and wrong, from pelf.
Our King through Israelitish rancour grew so blind,
As nothing to distinguish in his rage of mind.
By thousands, faithful seekers of God’s will he slew.
“Vouchsafe us help, O God of Moses, Jesus too!”
He had a Vazīr, brigandlike for craft and force.
In knavish stratagems he had no peer; of course.15
He whispered to the King: “These Christians, as in hives,
All keep their faith a mystery, to save their lives.
To kill them thus is profitless. Give breathing-time,