o'er,

And souls despatch'd to that world or to this; And therefore Michael and the other wore

A civil aspect; though they did not kiss, Yet still between his Darkness and his Brightness There pass'd a mutual glance of great politeness.

XXXVI.

The Archangel bow'd, not like a modern beau,
But with a graceful Oriental bend,
Pressing one radiant arm just where below
The heart in good men is supposed to tend.
He turn'd as to an equal, not too low,

But kindly; Satan met his ancient friend With more hauteur, as might an old Castilian Poor noble meet a mushroom rich civilian. XXXVII.

He merely bent his diabolic brow

An instant; and then raising it, he stood In act to assert his right or wrong, and show Cause why King George by no means could or should

Make out a case to be exempt from woe

Eternal, more than other kings, endued With better sense and hearts, whom history mentions, [tentions." Who long have 'paved hell with their good in

In this poor planet's conquest; nor, alas,
Need He thou servest envy me my lot:
With all the myriads of bright worlds which pass
In worship round Him, He may have forgot
Yon weak creation of such paltry things:

I think few worth damnation save their kings,-
XLI.

And these but as a kind of quit-rent, to
such an inclination, 'twere (as you
Assert my right as lord; and even had

I
[bad,
Well know) superfluous: they are grown so
That hell has nothing better left to do

Than leave them to themselves! so much more mad

And evil by their own internal curse,
Heaven cannot make them better, nor I worse.

'He ever warr'd with freedom and the free:
Nations as men, home subjects, foreign foes,
So that they utter'd the word Liberty!'
Found George the Third their first opponent.
Whose

History was ever stain'd as his will be
With national and individual woes

I grant his household abstinence; I grant
His neutral virtues, which most monarchs want;

• Lord Bute.