Nathan

Now turn we Back to our rings again.--I said, the sons Made their complaints: each one before the Judge Made oath that from his father’s very hand He had the Ring--and so in truth he had-- After his father’s promise, long before, That one day he should own the Ring and all Its rights--and this no less was true. The father, Each one averr’d, could ne’er have played him false. Rather than credit this--rather than nurse Against so loved a father, such a thought, How fain soever he had been to think Nothing but good of them, he must believe His brothers guilty of foul treachery. But surely one day he would find a way To unmask the villains--he would be avenged!