That godsmiths could produce, or priests devise;

These Adam-wits, too fortunately free,

Began to dream they wanted liberty;

And when no rule, no precedent was found,

Of men, by laws less circumscribed and bound;

They led their wild desires to woods and caves,

And thought that all but savages were slaves.

They who, when Saul[228] was dead, without a blow,

Made foolish Ishbosheth[229] the crown forego;

Who banished David[230] did from Hebron[231] bring,