And who suspends fixt law's, may abrogate,

That done, form new, and so enslave the state,[364]

Even property, whose champion now you stand,

And seem for this the idol of the land,

Did ne'er sustain such violence before,

As when your counsel shut the royal store;

Advice, that ruin to whole tribes procured,

But secret kept till your own banks secured.

Recount with this the triple covenant broke,

And Israel fitted for a foreign yoke;