With Watts' logic at his finger-ends,
'I rise (but shall not on the theme enlarge)
To show my approbation of this charge:
If proved it be, the censure should be passed
Or this offence be neither worst nor last.
A precedent will stand from year to year,
And 'tis the usual practice we shall hear.
Extreme severity 'tis right to shun,
For who could stand were justice only done?
And yet experience does most clearly show