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Thus heaven, that could constrain us to obey, }

(With reverence if we might presume to say,) }

Seems to relax the rights of sovereign sway; }

Permits to man the choice of good and ill,

And makes us happy by our own free-will.

PROLOGUE
TO THE EARL OF ESSEX.
BY MR J. BANKS, 1682.
SPOKEN TO THE KING AND THE QUEEN AT THEIR COMING TO THE HOUSE.