You threat, and ever thunder threatening!

Pour seething prophesy into my veins,

Till a simoon of madness in me moves.

Am I not king, the king? chosen and sealed?

Who’ve been anathema and have been bane

Unto the foes of Israel, and filled

The earth with death of them?

And do you still forbid that I bear gold

And bribe away this Philistine array

Folded about us, fettering with flame?