Worse scenes of rapine, lust, and shame,

Than e’er disgraced the Russian name,

Worse than the Austrian ever saw,

Are sanctioned here as righteous law.

Here might the Austrian butcher[[13]] make

Progress in shameful cruelty,

Where women-whippers proudly take

The meed and praise of chivalry.

Here might the cunning Jesuit learn,

Though skilled in subtle sophistry,