Thou art the man of all the many thousands
That toil upon the bosom of this isle,
By Heaven elected to command the rest,
To rule, protect them, and to make them happy.
When the first act ended, the factions of Jacobites and Hanoverians were equally satisfied with their power of making political use of passages in this play.
They found few opportunities in the second act; but both parties clapped hands at the lines of Osman:—
We meet to-day with open hearts and looks;
Not gloom’d by Party scowling on each other,
But all, the children of one happy isle,
The social Sons of Liberty.