Henceforth as strictly guard him on the throne

No less my people’s keeper than my own.[15]

You stare upon me all, amazed to hear

The word of civil justice from such lips

As never yet seem’d tuned to such discourse.

But listen—In that same enchanted tower,

Not long ago I learn’d it from a dream

Expounded by this ancient prophet here;

And which he told me, should it come again,

How I should bear myself beneath it; not