'Tis plain, that, not repealing, you allow.

To name the Test would put you in a rage;

You charge not that on any former age,

But smile to think how innocent you stand,

Armed by a weapon put into your hand.

Yet still remember, that you wield a sword,

Forged by your foes against your sovereign lord;

Designed to hew the imperial cedar down,

Defraud succession, and dis-heir the crown.[219]

To abhor the makers, and their laws approve,