Plagues and destruction breath,

40But two days since, little beneath a King!

VI.

Ai me! where is thy fury now,

Thine insolence, and all thy boundless power,

O most ridiculously dreadful thou!

Expos'd for beasts and fishes to devour.

Go, sottish mortals, let your breasts swell high;

All your designs laid deep as Hell,

A small mischance can quell,