Sent by the State to guard the land,

(Which, wrested from the Moslem's hand,[346]

While Sobieski tamed his pride

By Buda's wall and Danube's side,[on]

The chiefs of Venice wrung away

From Patra to Euboea's bay,)

Minotti held in Corinth's towers[oo]

The Doge's delegated powers,

While yet the pitying eye of Peace 220

Smiled o'er her long forgotten Greece:

And ere that faithless truce was broke

Which freed her from the unchristian yoke,

With him his gentle daughter came;

Nor there, since Menelaus' dame

Forsook her lord and land, to prove

What woes await on lawless love,

Had fairer form adorned the shore

Than she, the matchless stranger, bore.[op]