To cease the struggle that hath raged so long,
And caused to thee and her such cruel wrong.
She says, that from the Roman Senate's law,
And rule, she never would have turned aside,
Had not some brutal Consuls, with their raw
And ruthless hands, done outrage to her pride.
With fiercer statutes than the world e'er saw,
With greedy lust, extending far and wide,
They placed upon our necks such grievous yoke,
As might the meekest citizens provoke.