Others engag'd are hang'd if they retract.

So witches who their contracts have unsworn,

By their own Devils are in pieces torn.

Thus still the raging tempest higher grows,

Which in extremes the King's resolvings throws.

The face of Ruin everywhere appears,

And acts of outrage multiply our fears;

Whilst blind Ambition by successes fed

310Hath You beyond the bound of subjects led,

Who tasting once the sweet of regal sway,