Hate.
Hate described
Amidmost stood Hell’s daughter, Hate,
Malignant, base, and desolate
Of countenance; prime mover she
Of quarrel, strife, and jealousy.150
Her very being, as meseemed.
With black and treacherous poison teemed
Of evil passion, while her dark
And frowning visage bore the mark
Of frenzied madness. Heavenward rose.
As if in scorn, her camus nose,
And round her head, as if with will
To make her foulness fouler still,
A filthy clout had she enwrapped.
Felony.
Left of her stood a figure, capped160
And branded with a legend writ
Full large, which well her face did fit.
It said: “Behold foul Felony.”
Villainy.
And on her right hand Villainy
Stood pictured, and I soothly wot
That ’twixt this evil pair is not
Disparity of one poor hair.
A creature looked she born to bear
Within her bosom rancorous pride;
Her mouth thin lipped, as formed to chide.170
