that of satire might be in place here, your Majesty? The lighter

whip is easier;--Ah yes, undoubtedly! cry many men. But horrible

accounts are running up, enough to sink the world at last, while

the heavier whip is lazily withheld, and lazy blasphemy, fallen

torpid, chronic, and quite unconscious of being blasphemous,

insinuates itself into the very heart's-blood of mankind!

Patience, however; the heavy whip too is coming,--unless universal

death be coming. King Friedrich is not the man to wield such whip.