Exposed its author to the public hate;
When his just sovereign by no impious way
Could be seduced to arbitrary sway;
}
{ Forsaken of that hope, he shifts his sail,
{ Drives down the current with a popular gale,
{ And shows the fiend confessed without a veil.[494]
He preaches to the crowd, that power is lent,
But not conveyed, to kingly government;
That claims successive bear no binding force;