As that thou send a legate, specially

Cardinal Tournon, straight to Pekin, there

To settle and compose the difference!"

So have I seen a potentate all fume

For some infringement of his realm's just right.

Some menace to a mud-built straw-thatched farm

O' the frontier; while inside the mainland lie,

Quite undisputed-for in solitude,

Whole cities plague may waste or famine sap:

What if the sun crumble, the sands encroach,