“Look at the Queen: her heart is wholly set

Upon the Prince! what if he warp her mind

To errant policies, and rule us yet

By proxy?” “What and if he prove the kind

Of trifling gallant,” others said, “to slight

Our mistress, for each new and base delight?

“Ay, we will watch him, lest he do her wrong!”

And his due station, even from the first,

The peers of haughty rank and lineage long,

Jealous of one whose blossom at a burst