“Without Religion, Honour, Faith, or Fear,

“Sworn and forsworn yourselves?”—“O, ça ira.”

“Nay, Gentlemen, I speak not to upbraid:

“Rather, I’d say, you seem to need a spur:

“Hav’n’t ye still some object of your dread,

“Some innocent young Prince, your prisoner?

“Poison him—stab him—put him out o’ th’ way—

“Is that so monstrous?—Nay, you have a pattern:

“Do as I bid you, then stand up, and say,

“We are now upon a par with Royal Kattern.”