Would keep him still depending on the crowd:
That kingly power, thus ebbing out, might be
Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.
Him he attempts with studied arts to please.
[12] Shaftesbury.
[13] England.
[14] The President of the Jewish judicature. Shaftesbury had been made Lord Chancellor in 1672.
[15] Charles II.
[16] The Popish Plot.
[17] A Roman Catholic.