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Who owns, when Traitors feel th’ avenging rod,

Just retribution, and the hand of God;

Who hears the groans through Olmütz’ roofs that ring,

Of him who mock’d, misled, betray’d his King—

Hears unappall’d, though Faction’s zealots preach,

Unmov’d, unsoften’d by Fitzpatrick’s Speech.[[313]]

That Speech on which the melting Commons hung,

“While truths divine came mended from his tongue”;

How loving husband clings to duteous wife,—