Roman Grace Roman Law Roman Hell

Buy a catamite in the street
Watch a gladiator become meat.
Rape a woman on your way to Rome
Make a slave work, while you bathe at home.

Torture a peasant and draw and quarter
For being a witch, or evil doer.
"He said something which I don't like
"Destroy his children, his home, his wife."

Satan is the absolute head of Rome
And will in his kingdom ask you stone:
"Do you wish for law or grace?"
And with either you choose, it shall be waste.

*This is not a satire of Catholicism, but of Rome and Byzantium.