Instruct him better, gracious God, to know, As thine is vengeance, so forgiveness too; That, suffering from ill tongues, he bears no more Than what his sovereign bears, and what his Saviour bore. It now remains for you to school your child,[204] And ask why God's anointed he reviled; A king and princess dead! did Shimei worse? The curser's punishment should fright the curse; Your son was warned, and wisely gave it o'er, But he, who counselled him, has paid the score;[205] The heavy malice could no higher tend, But woe to him on whom the weights descend. So to permitted ills the demon flies; His rage is aimed at him who rules the skies: Constrained to quit his cause, no succour found, The foe discharges every tire around, In clouds of smoke abandoning the fight, But his own thundering peals proclaim his flight. In Henry's change his charge as ill succeeds;} To that long story little answer needs; } Confront but Henry's words with Henry's deeds. } Were space allowed, with ease it might be proved, What springs his blessed reformation moved. The dire effects appeared in open sight, } Which from the cause he calls a distant flight, } And yet no larger leap than from the sun to light.} Now last your sons a double pæan sound, A treatise of humility is found. 'Tis found, but better it had ne'er been sought, Than thus in Protestant procession brought. The famed original through Spain is known, } Rodriguez' work, my celebrated son, } Which yours, by ill-translating, made his own;[206]} Concealed its author, and usurped the name, The basest and ignoblest theft of fame. My altars kindled first that living coal; Restore, or practise better what you stole; That virtue could this humble verse inspire, 'Tis all the restitution I require.-- Glad was the Panther that the charge was closed, And none of all her favourite sons exposed; for laws of arms permit each injured man, To make himself a saver where he can. Perhaps the plundered merchant cannot tell The names of pirates in whose hands he fell; But at the den of thieves he justly flies, And every Algerine is lawful prize; No private person in the foe's estate Can plead exemption from the public fate. Yet Christian laws allow not such redress; Then let the greater supersede the less. But let the abettors of the Panther's crime Learn to make fairer wars another time. Some characters may sure be found to write } Among her sons; for 'tis no common sight, } A spotted dam, and all her offspring white.} The savage, though she saw her plea controuled, Yet would not wholly seem to quit her hold, But offered fairly to compound the strife, And judge conversion by the convert's life.