Note 538 — THE VISION OF JUDGMENT. BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS.

["Who might the other be, his comrade in guilt and in suffering, Brought to the proof like him, and shrinking like him from the trial? Nameless the Libeller lived, and shot his arrows in darkness; Undetected he passed to the grave, and leaving behind him Noxious works on earth, and the pest of an evil example, Went to the world beyond, where no offences are hidden. Masked had he been in his life, and now a visor of iron, Rivetted round his head, had abolished his features for ever. Speechless the slanderer stood, and turned his face from the Monarch, Iron-bound as it was ... so insupportably dreadful Soon or late to conscious guilt is the eye of the injured."