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895.

[The servant of unbridled lust]

Herod himself had sent forth and laid, &c. —vi. 17.

The servant of unbridled lust
Is always cruel and unjust:
His idol, if for blood she cries,
He gluts with human sacrifice;
And left his measure to fulfil,
To persecute the saints and kill,
He rushes on with conscience sear'd,
And murders whom he once revered.