No acts of Grace at present would content,
Nor promise of Triennial Parl'ament,
Till by a formal law the King had past
This Session should at Your pleasure last.
So having got the bit, and that 'twas known
No power could dissolve You but Your own,
Your graceless Junto make such use of this,
Diodorus Siculus, lib. 2.
As once was practis'd by Semiramis;
Who striving by a subtile suit to prove