“‘Thou art a woman such as deserts breed:

A prophetess among the elect of God,

Who lays his mission on thee, with his hand,

As even once on Judith, and on Jael,

On Miriam, and Esther; such an one

As burns with all the strength and wrath of God,

Consumed with zeal, devoted unto death,

A sword of hatred to the impious.

Plough up this land again with bloody war;

And I shall bless thy work. A Herod sits