But when our neighbours misdemean,
Our censures are exceeding keen.
[X.] THE SACRILEGIOUS THIEF.
A villain to Jove’s altar came
To light his candle in the flame,
And robb’d the god in dead of night,
By his own consecrated light:
Then thus an awful voice was sent,
As with the sacrilege he went:
“Though all this gold and silver plate