Reprieve himself when summon’d to the grave?
Nor you, ye leaders, view them with ill-will
If no one sees their speeches in The Times,
Where long-drawn columns oft proclaim your skill
To blacken innocence, and palliate crimes.
Can legal lore or animated speech
Avert that sentence which awaits on all?
Can nisi prius craft and snares o’er reach
That Judge whose look the boldest must appal?