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408 THE SCHOOL IX -translate into rttfe gambits Great Lords wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss But cheerly seek how to redress their harms What though the mast be now blown overboard The cable broke the holding anchor lost And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood Yet lives our pilot still Is't meet that he Should leave the helm and like fearful lad With tearful eyes add water to the sea And give more strength to that which hath too much Whiles in his moan the ship split on the rock Which industry and courage might have saved Ah what shame ah what fault were this -Cranilatt into ilatin legiac$ Whose passions not his masters are Whose soul is still prepared for death Untied unto the world by care Of public fame or private breath Who hath his life from rumours freed Whose conscience is his strong retreat Whose state can neither flatterers feed Nor ruin make oppressors great This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall Lord of himself though not of lands And having nothing yet hath all XL-EranSlatt into &tuk grose The historians who favour Richard for even this tyrant has met with partisans among the later writers maintain that he was well qualified for government had he legally obtained it and that he committed no crimes but such as were necessary to pro-