To discipline, that they might grow more fierce,
Like dogs, that wreak on foes their masters’ will.
IV.
Time held his course; the strong-willed man of blood
Prospered in all he undertook, and throve,
And gathered stores, and seemed to casual eyes
A happy child of Fortune; yet there burned
Two unextinguished furnaces of woe
Within him—lust of gold and of revenge:
For his was not a spirit that e’er could yield,