“‘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