Frenzied with pain: no need for poison here!

Step aside and enjoy the spectacle!"

Tender for souls are you, Pope Innocent!

Christ's maxim is—one soul outweighs the world:

Respite me, save a soul, then, curse the world!

"No," venerable sire, I hear you smirk,

"No: for Christ's gospel changes names, not things,

Renews the obsolete, does nothing more!

Our fire-new gospel is re-tinkered law,

Our mercy, justice,—Jove's rechristened God,—