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,