And make wrong doers justice to deride,
Unless it be performed with dreadless might;
For power is the right hand of justice truly hight.
Spenser.
A just man cannot fear,
Not, though the malice of traducing tongues,
The open vastness of a tyrant’s ear,
The senseless rigour of the wrested laws,
Or the red eyes of strain’d authority,
Should, in a point meet all to take his life,