Once the world's Lord, now the beslaved Greek,
Made by a Turkish yoke and fortune's hate
40In language as in mind, degenerate.
And here all wrapp'd in pity and amaze
I stand, whilst I upon the Sultan gaze;
To think how he with pride and rapine fir'd
So vast a territory hath acquir'd;
And by what daring steps he did become
The Asian fear, and scourge of Christendom:
How he achiev'd, and kept, and by what arts