Diffused when order reigned for public good,
Was tiresome ...
Repeated pardons make him more elate,
And bolder to offend again.
He hath provoked his fate;
Deliberative sadness ratifies
The offender's doom, and solemn be his obsequies!
Yes, let him fall, decision slowly won
From Dion's mind, to authorize a deed
Which when the word was uttered—with the speed