They swear dire vengeance,—but they mean it not.”

“Your petty tyrant’s insolence I hate;

If wrong is done me, be it from the great.”

“A lie has often, I have known before,

More weight than truth, and people trust it more.”

“Don’t talk of birth and family; all of those

Who have no natural worth on that repose.

Blue blood, grand pedigree, illustrious sires

He boasts of, who to nothing more aspires.

What use long ancestry your pride to call?