Chapter 54 No.54

These executioners were chose,

As men who were with mankind foes,

And with despite and envy fired,

Into the cloister had retired;

Or who, in desperate doubt of grace,

Strove, by deep penance, to efface

Of some foul crime the stain;

For, as the vassals of her will,

Such men the Church selected still,

As either joyed in doi