166.

O truly royal! who behold the law,

And rule of beings in your Maker's mind;[161]

And thence, like limbecs, rich ideas draw,

To fit the levelled use of human-kind.

167.

But first the toils of war we must endure,

And from the injurious Dutch redeem the seas;

War makes the valiant of his right secure,

And gives up fraud to be chastised with ease.