}
For petty royalties you raise debate; }
But this unfailing universal state }
You shun; nor dare succeed to such a glorious weight; }
And for that cause those promises detest,
With which our Saviour did his church invest;
But strive to evade, and fear to find them true,
As conscious they were never meant to you;
All which the mother-church asserts her own,
And with unrivalled claim ascends the throne.