high Are all the sweets of Life of no esteem Will not this Daring Act Self-murder seem If thou destroy thy Life which thou may'st spare Will God-incourage a Self-murderer Why wilt thou vainly cast thy self away Is' t not sufficient in thy thoughts to pray The Ceremony's but the outward shell Will not Ejaculation do as well God is a Spirit if thy Spirit move He thy Devotion will as well approve What from thy Soul 's most secret Altar flies Will be accepted as a Sacrifice God the Desires of the Humble meets And sighs to him from contrite hearts are sweet Mental Devotion to thy Soul is free Which countermines their damn'd Conspiracy Ah! no these weak Temptations cannot find Admittance to Appal his Noble Mind Daniel to buy his Life won't sell his God But in those paths which he before had trod He still will move his Soul must still have vent His Lips must call on the Omnipotent He with his Speech his God still glorifies Though his Destruction in his Duty lies Though he should swiftly pray himself to Air He will approach his God in vocal prayer He 'l rather to the Lions be a prey Than to neglect his Duty for a day And while his Enemies do strictly watch He to his God in prayer doth approach He ne're regards his Crafty OBSERVATOR But thus Exalts his Voice to his Creator The Prayer ALmighty and Omnipotent Jehove Thou Glorious and Eternal God above Whose Habitation is Eternal Light My God in Thee Alone is my delight O thou whose Fulness only doth possess Immensity and Everlastingness Lord what is Man the Son of Man that thou Thy Glorious Ear to such an one dost bow O how illustrious is thy Grace when we Are made the Objects of thy Clemency To Thee O Lord to Thee Alone I bend O let my prayers to thy Throne ascend What is Darius Lord whom Men advance Can he as God command Deliverance Such would Invade the Glory of thy Throne Who make their Deity a Mortal one A God they do adore who cannot save Either himself or others from the Grave Pardon O pardon their blasphemous Deed. O let thy Mercies all their Guilt exceed Though their Design was principally laid My Divine Priviledges to Invade They would debar me from Access to Thee They would eclipse that glorious Liberty And draw a Curtain 'twixt my God and me Lord what is life to me unless I may Life of my Soul the God of Life obey Open the Door of Grace O Lord that I May to the Bosom of thy Favour fly O let me praise thee let my only Aim Be in my day to glorifie thy Name Lord I am in thy hand grant me thy pow'r That over Death I may be Conquerer Give me a holy Courage that I may Triumph in Death ere Heaven disobey And let my Sacrifice effectual prove To tell the world God only dwells above Redeem thy Church But then O strange surprise With Vulgar Tumults and exalted cryes The house with loud Allarms is begirt round The horrid Noise his pure Devotions drown'd The Conspirators with a full mouth'd cry Bawl Treason Treason ' gainst His Majesty And with a Guard surprise his prostrate Soul Whose thoughts were mounted far above the Pole Bring him away Darius cannot save Him from the paunches of a Living Grave They without Perjury could safely swear He to the God of Heaven made his prayer And now their Plot is to perfection brought They have obtain'd the only thing they sought For in the snare the Innocent is caught And now how briskly do they pass to Court Happy is he can give the first Report And to Darius Ears Evidence bring Of one that prays to God and not the King But with what subtilty do they proceed To make more sure what lately was decreed They the Transgressor do at first obscure To make the Law stronger or more secure For they well knew the King so well did love him Nothing could from his Princely Favour move him He would dispence Prerogative but he Would set his Best Beloved Daniel free If he foresaw what they by Craft obscure His Royal Word they once again procure That whosoere denies what is Decreed The Rav'ning Beasts shall on his Body feed This once obtain'd these Politicks proceed One who pretends to Loyalty and Trust Proves to your Sacred Majesty unjust Your Royal Law which all ought to obey And as a Debt unto your Greatness pay Is disesteem'd slighted and countermanded As though Dread Lord you had it not commanded One whom to Honour you have lifted high Scorns to obey your Sacred Majesty Ungrateful Rebel Traitor to the Crown Which did Exalt him to so high Renown His high Disdain on your Decree hath trod And will not own Darius is a God But prayes to something which to us doth seem To be at greater Distances from him For to the Heav'ns and not unto your Throne He is Exalted in Devotion This vile pernicious Ill Example may Intice your Subjects in their minds astray After some other God and so deprive Darius of his Great Prerogative Shall he not Die shall not the Law proceed Hath not our God Darius so Decreed I cannot change nor alter my Decree Bring forth the Traitor instantly to me And then produce your Witness which is he This Daniel is the Man this Captive Slave That dares your Great and Royal Law outbrave Daniel dear Daniel oh what have I done I Issu'd out my Rash Resolves too soon Ah! you in this have Rent from me a Jem Of equal value with my Diadem My Soul is wounded for this Rash Decree Which puts a Period to all Loyalty For in his Breast such faithfulness did dwell His unexampl'd Love did all excel And must I lose him must he be Remov'd Shall I be dispossest of what I Lov'd Ah! what Distraction wounds my troubled Breast Of what I most esteem'd I 'm dispossest Who could imagine that your snare was laid Against your King whose Int'rest is betray'd In this vile Act by which is overthrown The strongest Pillar that supports my Throne My Glorious State will totter when he 's gone This is so far from Loyalty and Trust As it proclaims you hateful and unjust To me whom you in scorn a God have made By which my only Angel is betray'd What shall I say you 're Enemies of Peace Who hate what is your Sov'raigns Happiness For I in him alone was happy made But now too late I find we 're both betray'd I was a King would I had been content Without Invading the Omnipotent But I too late my Errours have survey'd Darius and his Daniel is betray'd Unhappy Daniel thy unhappy State Makes Thee an Object both of Love and Hate Thy King his singular Respects doth show The Nobles hate Thee to thy overthrow He if he could thy Honours would support But they design to Tear Thee from the Court And with a voice unanimous they cry Deliver Daniel to us he must Die. 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THE HISTORY OF THE Babylonish Cabal OR The Intrigues Progression Opposition Defeat and Destruction Of the Daniel-Catchers In a POEM By Richard Steere Nec Lex est justior ulla Quam Necis Artifices Arte perire suâ Ovid. LONDON Printed for Richard Baldwin in the Old Bayley 1682. TO THE Right Honourable ANTHONY Earl of Shaftesbury c. My Lord THere is hardly a kind of Persecution more Irresistible than that of Dedications No Monarch can defend himself from it since the Invention of Printing By this kind of Visit a Plebean whether he Adorns or Disgraces the Press 't is no matter can Vault into the view of the Most Exalted Wits and Most Renowned of Men. If Custom be any Excuse for such fashionable Presumptions I hope your Lordship will pardon the Boldness I have taken to shelter this Product of some Retired hours under the Protection of your Honourable Name Some Sheets of the same nature were not long since presented to your Lordship in Prose which Allarm'd a Silent Spectators Muse to Revive that Ingenious Paraphrase in the Modern Attire of Measure and Cadency which though unadorn'd with those Affected Flights of Fancy those Heaven-daring Metaphors that by an Antiphrasis becautifie the Raptures of the PERPETUAL STATE-POET the Achitophel-maker yet my Lord you will find it plain and honest and expressive of the Sympathy which some of a Lower Orb bear to the Contriv'd Sufferings of so Illustrious an Innocent as DANIEL was But who can Fall when Heaven is the Protector Or what Machinations can prosper when countermin'd by the Divinity If Men of Meer Wit will needs wantonly Allegorize SACRED HISTORY and by Misapplied Parallels throw Affronts upon our Great and Loyal States-Men then whether They will or no Men of Loyalty will borrow Scripture Artillery and Allegorize it in a sober Attaque to Batter down the Babels of such Daniel-Catchers That your Lordship may Live Long and Happy to serve your King and Country in spight of all your Enemies is the Hearty Prayer of My Lord Your Most Humble and Most Obedient Servant R. S. THE HISTORY Of the Sham-Plot Defeat and Destruction Of the Daniel-Catchers c. BEhold how Rich how Glorious is the Soul Whose Faith is stedfast and without controul Faith will the Temples with Great Glory Crown Faith is the Hand which Takes the Blessing down Faith 's the Defensive and Offensive Shield Saves the Possessor Makes th'Opposer yield This Abel Enoch Noah in their days Made th'Infant Earth Illustrious with its Rays Abra'am was call'd the Father of this Grace Isaac and Jacob in his steps did trace Moses and Samuel have the same pursu'd Who as Bright Stars of the first Magnitude Dart down their sev'ral Bright Coelstial Rays Upon the Church in her more Modern days Who all a Glorious Constellation prove Patterns of Piety of Faith and Love Can Daniel be forgot or may he come And with his Fellow Prophets take a Room Of Princes and of Prophets not the â—east Whose Soul with this Eximious Faith possest To stop the Mouths of Lions Faith is Crown'd Because our Daniel Innocent was found His History shall be our present Theme And from that Fountain we 'l pursue the Stream To paraphrase upon the State of things What Honours were conferr'd on him by Kings His Lise Imprisonment and Sufferings With that strong Faith which did his Soul Advance Working Miraculous Deliverance Take but a transient View of him behold How his own Book doth his own State unfold See how the Spirit hath display'd the Sence Of his Original his Eminence He is descended of Illustrious Blood His Pedigree was doubtless Great and Good The Seed of Princes he appears to be Or some Prime Branch of the Nobility His Conduct and his Courage do proclaim The Greatness of his uncontrouled â—ame For his Great Soul so Manag'd all Affairs As he did Antitype those Characters Nor in the Series of his Lives whole Story Was Daniel found to be Derogatory But Ornamental to his Birth and Glory And as in Honour so in Beauty he Arrives unto an excellent Degree His Graceful Presence Personage and Face Perfection vie with his Interiour Grace Each representing him Lovely and Rare So fairly good or else so goodly Fair By Royal Mandate he 's a Chosen one Attaining perfect Education In all the Chaldean Learning he is Taught The Mysteries and Policies of State That he might stand before the King or be A Privy Councellor to Monarchy A Pollisht Pillar fixt for the support Of Royalty and Grandeur at the Court. Yet he Religiously avoids Excess And frames his mind to be content with less The King 's delicious Dainties he denies And all the Fulness of Court Luxuries For Pulse and Water are his only Fare Which to Great Men is an Example Rare His Humane parts with Grace Divine are Crown'd True Wisdom and Great Knowledge do abound In him for he by God was sanctifi'd To be a Prophet whereby he unty'd The knotty and most intricate of Dreams By powerful Insluence of Coelestial Beams Puzling Enigma's Visions of the Night He their Interpretation brings to Light He fitted was for Publick Government Well qualifi'd for what was Eminent All these concurring fitted him to be Trusted with all Affairs of 〈◊〉 The King inspects his Wisdom and great Worth His favour then to Honour calls him forth Makes him his Lord LIEUTENANT next the Throne Over the Province of Great Babylon More Honour yet the King on him confers Creates him Greatest of his Treasurers And as the King should say I cannot see One of more Worth in all my Monarchy Heaps Honour upon Honour adding more Over the Magi him Chief Governour To make his Royal Favour more complete Daniel at Court is fixt Chief Favourite And now involv'd in bus'ness for the King Honours and Offices do Troubles bring Yet Daniel won't neglect three times a day As he did use unto his God to pray And while his prayers mount the Throne of Grace All worldly Cares do to his Thoughts give place O happy Prince more happy in this thing Whose Counsellors fear God obey the King Daniel Exalted now to high Renown Studies the only Int'rest of the Crown He knew his Lord's great Interest would be T o'ave Officers of spotless Loyalty Menâ— of an Equal Spirit with his own Were persons fittest to attend a Throne This Policy of his appears to be An Act of unexampled Piety Next to his Prince his Loyal care extends And shews some signal Favour to his Friends Great Comfort to the Church in her Exile When Nursing Fathers on their Children smile At his Request 't was done th' effects were so For Shadrach Meshech and Abednego Over th' Affairs of â—abylon were sent To manage Grand Affairs of Government See the Effects of his Industrious Care When such Brave Men in publick Office are Whose publiek Spirits for the publick good Nebuchadnezzar's Idols have withstood To which his Princes and his â—ords of State Pay Homage whilst yet
be And of these Three although Beloved all Daniel's Commission is for Principal The Prime and Greatest Minister of State And Next Immediate to the Potentate His Honours now with Greatest Lustre we May in the Zenith of his Glories see Now Lord High President of great Renown Over the Counsels that attend the Crown And o're the Treasures of Darius State His Government is next Immediate Nor did the King his Favours thus bestow Ere he had Reason for his doing so For his serene and well pois'd Judgment found Faith Prudence Policy in him abound A Spirit of so Excellent a frame That his deserts laid to his Honours claim But he no sooner Mounted is above In full possession of his Prince's Love No sooner on the wing of Favour flyes To Lofty Honours vast Transcendencies Though ne're so justly merited and due Black-Envious-Rankard-Spirits will pursue With eager mindâ— fill'd with Revengeful hate What may eclipse the Greatness of their State What between them and Honour though Belov'd By their Great Sov'raign must be now remov'd What shall an Alien Lord it over me One of the Children of Captivity Shall we that are the Natives of the Land In our own Country bend to his Command Shall he Monopolize our Princes Love While we like Clouds below his Glories move How can you bear your Princes Lords Peers Shall Babel's Honours be a Forreigners Let us Remove him he once being gone Then our Access is nigher to the Throne While many strive for Honour here how few Do the Eternal Crown of Life pursue Immortal Honour such a Drug is grown They 'l rather satisfie themselves with none For the same Eye which for the one doth strive Cannot the value of the other give Methinks I see their Cabal Counsel croud Under the covert of a sooty Cloud Shaking their PLOT-CONTRIVING CASE OF BRAINS Taking all dext'rous and laborious pains Gaping for Breath whilst others lend an Ear And each by turns commences Counseller This will not do says one th' other replies How shall we dress him for Our Sacrifice Then how they scratch their Heads bite their Nails When this and that and th' other Counsel fails Are his State Ministrations all so Just Can we not find him vary in his Trust Let 's his Attendants bribe for they may see Something Defective in his Family Can it be possible he Err'd not or May not some words confound the Orator May we not artificially expound If but a doubtful syllable be found Drop from his Lip what e're th' occasion be Treason is meant against His Majesty Thus with malicious undermining Arts Their consultation at his Honour darts What shall we do is there no hope to bring Some guilty Accusation to the King Can we not find some colourable Story Diminutive to Dignity and Glory Can we not dive into his Inmost part May not some Trait'rous Thought lodge in his heart Which we might squeez into a Treas'nous sense And publickly produce for Evidence But is his Soul too Innocent and clear And no hope left for an Endictment here Curse of his Faith his Loyalty his Trust Would he were not unless he were unjust Our Circumspection ought to be our care Which while unguarded does invite a snare For with our Greatest Diligence we scarce Repel those Darts that would our Honours pierce Great Personages cannot be too wise For their Conspiring Plotting Enemies Whose greedy Lusts their Int ' rest to advance Dare swear Men Traitors by their Coumenance But to their Honour let the World admire They without Evidence could not conspire Let it remain unto posterity As a Remarque of HEATHEN PIETY These Heathen Conspirators scorn to foul With Base Degen'rate Perjury the Soul Though their Revenge so fiercely they engage Base Subornation must not help their Rage They will not Damn their Souls for those they hate Foul Perjury meer Heathen boggle at Rome doth from Hell such Impious Customs fetch Which consciencious Heathens scorn to teach Such Monstrous Births as these can never come But from that Hydra Triple Crown of Rome Who issues Dispensations and Commissions Grants to the Greatest Villanies Permissions Rapine Rebellion Treason Fire and Blood Is the Religion of this vip'rous Brood Can EIGHTY EIGHT th' accursed POWDER-PLOT And STROMBOLONIAN LONDON be forgot So many Living Monuments appear Proves Rome more Impious than the Heathens were May Heav'ns Dread Anger drive this Torrent home With all their Fry to Lucifer or Rome And may their Plots and Shams confounded be Ere they arrive to full Maturity Mean time O Lord protect the Innocent And all Rome's Cursed Black Designs prevent To their Cabal let us Return and there We find our Plotting Politicks despair Of the Success in all they have design'd Nothing defective in him they can finds For his Allegiance to his Prince is such They cannot Daniel's Reputation touch And this Despair makes them consult their Wits Since this nor that nor th' other project hits It is propos'd and the Proposal finds An universal One and All their Minds Concur they at Religion will begin To find his holy Duty to be sin For his Exact Obedience to his God Must be the Snare the Trap the Net the Rod His dear Devotions which though he esteem Must be the Cord by which we 'll strangle him Get the Decree but sign'd the work is done Then let him pray and End what we Begun Pray to the Grave each Motion of his Breath In prayer to his God he prays to death Say is' t agreed My Lords is this the way Nemine Contradicente bears the sway There needs no greater Judgment upon those Whose Consultations do the Heav'ns oppose They that ' gainst God their close Devices bend His Honour is engaged to defend They who conspire ' gainst Divine Majesty In their own Plots shall their own Ruine see For he that shoots at Piety and Grace Hits God himself directly in the Face That Malice which one single Soul doth wound Would if it could the Deity confound This new Contrivance hits so rarely well The humour of it doth so much Excel All they have done or thought upon before Th' Invention they are ready to adore O how they chuckle how they bless their wits For being such Ingenious Counterfeits The Rare Intexture of this Plot shuts out All kind of Room for Jealousie or Doubt It cannot miss it is so strongely laid He must deny his God or be betray'd If he be Just to him his Life is ours This Blest Invention makes us Conquerours Thus the Decree with general Assent Passes the Peers as Votes in Parliament Who with unanimous Results agree And for Assent Address His Majesty They by a Law Enact him God on Earth And whoso owns another it is death The God of Heaven now must be deny'd And in his Room the King is Dein'd To him each Soul must his Devotions pay And to no other Deity must pray For all Petitions must be spread before him They as a God for
satisfie at once his hopes and fears His hope that Daniel lives fills him with Joys His fear that he is dead the same destroys Darius's heart is in the Lions Den And new he moves to meet his heart agen How briskly I behold his Royal Feet With nimble motion hurry through the street His winged thoughts fly swifter than a Dove Yet cann't surpass the motion of his Love He values not the Complements of State Nor minds if his Retinue on him wait Nor for his Coach or Chariot will he stay Lest it should too much of his time delay If he can find his Daniel but alive 'T is satisfaction in superlative Might not Darius have a Faith which came By its Original from Abraham Who against hope firmly in hope believes And strongest Faith the most Assurance gives What though the Lions Beasts of Rapine are And though by hunger made the eagerer And what though human flesh and blood be sweet A novel Dish and not their usual Meat 'T is possible that Life from Death may spring Sure some such Faith as this possess the King He cryes aloud his voice the Air doth fill Ho! Daniel Daniel art thou living still Hold hold Darius cease thy hollow voice Lest thou awake the Lions with the noise Thy loud Allarms thy unexpected cryes May Rouse the savage Beasts to Sacrifice Thy Dearest Daniel who among them lyes If they have fasted all the night from Food May they not take their morning draught in blood And break their Fasts on that delicious Meat Which they last night set up and could not cat Brutes can no Reason give for their Delay Their savage Nature is for present prey They cannot trust but Run at all that lyes Within the prospect of their greedy Eyes Faith is a stranger to their Rav'nous Claws Sense only cloys or tires their greedy Jaws They think not of hereafter or before But gorge their Guts till they can eat no more The King well knew if Daniel mist their Jaws 'T was Providence not Project was the cause The King 's unchangeable Affections prove The greater Confirmation of his Love His Princely Favours pass beyond the Grave His Faith beyond his Sense what 's lost will save Through the Impenetrable Stones he calls His Soul wrapt up in sighs doth pierce the walls And safely doth arrive at Daniel's Ears Whose Joy doth swell when he his Master hears Daniel what greater honour can be shown Was ever Mottal Man so waited on Was ever Pris'ner when condemn'd by Fate Attended with such Majesty and State Thy God within thy King without the Gate Waits in his Person where he stayes till he The happy Prospect of his Daniel see And to Return Thanks to those savage Beasts For their Accommodations to their Guests For they contrary to their Nature now To the Beloved of their Master bow Now may you hear this worthy Porentate Express his Soul in Accents passionate O Daniel servant to the Living God Whose Habitation Dwelling and Abode Is in Eternal Everlasting Light Whose Eyes can penetrate the sable Night Is thy God able by his Pow'r to free From Death from Bondage and Captivity Such as depend on his Ability Darius Queries yet is far from doubt His Faith confirms what he is come about For he affirms thy God will set thee free His Confidence was in the Deity Experience past confirms his Faith the more That God can do what he has done before He the Effects of Faith doth now embrace For Living Daniel stands before his face Which through the Grates no sooner he esples The sudden Vision doth his Soul surprise As in an Extasie of Joy he stands And upwards elevates his Princely hands Being struck dumb with admiration hears His Daniels voice approach his Royal Ears In the same stile in the same Loyal sound O King for ever live live ever Crown'd With the Celestial Diadem of Glory When thou hast perfected thy Earthly Story Praises ascend from me to God above That he the heart of my dread Lord did move Thus to bestow on me his princely Love From Prayer he to Preaching doth proceed Though from his Chappel yet he is not freed The King stands in the porch and doth not stir But is content to be his Auditer Into two Branches he his theam doth bring Leaving the Application to the King He first the goodness of his God declares Next his own innocency he avers And these two points doth he unite to prove The mighty God doth Innocency love His Duty he from hence doth justifie Both to Divine and Earthly Majesty Such cannot be unfaithful to their King Who to their God are just in ev'ry thing Darius ne're was satisfied more In any Sermon he e're heard before The Surly Lyons seem to understand And watch the motion of his Lip and Hand How mute and how demure they sit and hear As if his voice were musick to the Ear. And if his silence so much aw'd their sence How were they charmed with his Eloquence Experience worketh confidence for he Can the Beasts Love and his own safety see Well may he trust whom he hath found his Friends One Mercy on another still depends The same deliv'rance which first set him free Makes him still trust in its security That which the Lyon and the Bear subdue Was the same Faith which the Philistine slew The Israelites on th' other shore that stood Were sureties for such as pass the flood So the same saith as firmly doth ingage Still to preserve as first to stay the rage Of the fierce Lyons till the Charm be past Which clearly quits the Innocent and Chast Which by his faith is justifi'd at last The Sermon being done the Seals are tore And open flies the stony Chappel door The Captive issues forth where soon he spies His Royal Prince wrapt up in extasies He 's Heaven struck with Joy and admiration His Soul is rap't in Divine Contemplation He like a Statue stands fixt and unmov'd His Royal Eyes gaze on his best belov'd His ravisht thoughts are glutted with excess Of Heav'nly Raptures which he can't express After some pause deliberately he Doth reassume the thoughts of Majesty And thundering forth with terrour on his Brow Those dreadful mandates which must follow now Orders for Execution forth are sent In favour of his Lord High President Those who have his destruction thus design'd Must the revenge of great Darius find Those who his life have plotted to betray Shall their own lives instead of Daniels pay What they would take from him they down must lay This Day 's Deliverance is of high Esteem When Heav'n Beloved Daniel did Redeem And now the King Resolves to keep a Feast In Memory of his Reprieved Guest But the first Course he to the Lions sends To make their fasting Appetites amends They could not tast the Dish that first was drest Therefore the King supplies 'em with a â—east Varieties of Sexes choice of Meat ' Cause on a single Dish they cannot eat On which when serv'd their eager stomachs feed They have not patience till the Cloth be spread Daniel gave Thanks before they scorn the fashion But fall on boldly without Invitation They 're so impatient that they cannot stay But meet each Course while in the middle way Ere the Meat comes to Table they devour And drink Carouzes to the Emperour In the hearts-blood of these Man catching Feinds Those vile Trappaners of the King 's best Friends The crackling of whose Joynts their Musick is They find no sweeter Melody than this And having sup't betake themselves to Rest Well satisfi'd with this Delicious Feast Till they awake and Rouse themselves agen To overlook the Fragments in the Den They ready are for more if more there be Found acting Treason ' gainst his Majesty Thirsting with greedy Appetites for Blood As those Men did who lately were their food And 't is but Nat'ral that the Flesh of those Monsters of Nature whose Designs oppose Sov'regnity in Monarchs and contrive His Best of Subjects to Intomb alive 'T is natural I say that such should be Incorporate in Inhumanity To savage Nature they degenerate Savage they are and in that savage state They justly are condemn'd to savage fate No need of Process Summoning or Juries He who Infallibly both Just and Pure is Sits Judge in Court he who alone surveys Dark obscure thoughts untrodden crooked waies Of sinful Mortals he who sits on high Condemns and who shall dare to justifie 'T was he those Catifs to destruction hurld And by his Miracle convinc'd the world It is a Maxim Politick in State And the prime Lesson of a Potentate To fix the Crown on his own Temples sure And in his Royal Throne to sit secure Therefore at first remov's what may impede The Diadems fixation on his head And if Conspiracy hereafter moves So losty as to strike at what he loves Then Policy calls Majesty to rouse And his Beloved Subjects Cause espouse For such as venture at his Royal Breast To rend from thence what he doth value best Will the next onset ravenously fly To strike the very Heart of Majesty That insolence which dares attempt the one Dares undermine or overthrow the Throne The Great Darius will decree oâ—… more But not against the Heavens as before He will be God no longer but lay down His Divine Title for a mortal one