Of chamber, he lords, ladies, louts eyed

With such transformation of visage

As fitted the censor of this age.

No longer an advocate tepid

Of frailty, but champion intrepid

Of strength,—not of falsehood but verity,—

He, one after one, with asperity

Stripped bare all the cant-clothed abuses,

Disposed of sophistic excuses,

Forced folly each shift to abandon,