XLIV.

"'Tis true, he was a tool from first to last (I have the workmen safe); but as a tool So let him be consumed. From out the past Of ages, since mankind have known the rule Of monarchs--from the bloody rolls amassed Of Sin and Slaughter--from the Cæsars' school, Take the worst pupil; and produce a reign More drenched with gore, more cumbered with the slain.