"Let me that exemplary vengeance bear,
(Benign return'd her amiable son:)
"Justice on her would lose its aim; severe
"In vain, productive of no good; for none
"Could by that desolating blow be won.
"So falls each generous purpose of the will
"Correct, extinguish'd by abortion:
"Whence justice would its own intendments spill;
"And cut off virtue, by the stroke meant vice to kill.