II + 

This was a crime forbidden by the law; + 

And all the priesthood of his city wept, + 

For ruin and dismay they well foresaw, + 

If impious prince no bound or limit kept, + 

And faery Zendervester overstept; + 

They wept, he sinn’d, and still he would sin on, + 

They dreamt of sin, and he sinn’d while they slept; + 

In vain the pulpit thunder’d at the throne, + 

Caricature was vain, and vain the tart lampoon. + 