One question to my doubting breast.

This thing, I pray, with truth explain:

Why would ye, while I justly reign,

That he, mine eldest son, should bear

His part with me as ruling heir?”

Then all the people made reply,

Peasant and townsman, low and high:

“Each noblest gift of form and mind,

O Monarch, in thy son we find.

Do thou the godlike virtues hear