Of their adulterous birth, and one crime more

Crowning a hideous course, emancipate

Thenceforth their spirits from all earthly fear.

This was their only care; but other thoughts

Were rankling in that elder villain’s mind,

Their kinsman Orpas, he of all the crew

Who in this fatal visitation fell,

The foulest and the falsest wretch that e’er

Renounced his baptism. From his cherish’d views

Of royalty cut off, he coveted