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Book 2.  None hall partake with me. Thus aying roe The Monarch, and prevented all reply, Prudent, leat from his reolution rais’d Others among the chief might offer now, 470 (Certain to be refus’d) what ert they feard; And o refus’d might in opinion tand His rivals, winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge mut earn. But they Dreaded not more th’ adventure then his voice Forbidding; and at once with him they roe; Thir riing all at once was as the ound Of Thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone; and as a God Extoll him equal to the highet in Heav’n: 480 Nor fail’d they to expres how much they prais’d, That for the general afety he depis’d His own: for neither do the Spirits damn’d Looe all thir vertue; leat bad men hould boat Thir pecious deeds on earth, which glory excites, Or cloe ambition varniht o’re with zeal. Thus they thir doubtful conultations dark Ended rejoycing in thir matchles Chief: As when from mountain tops the dusky clouds Acending, while the North wind leeps, o’erpread 490 Heav’ns chearful face, the lowring Element Scowls ore the dark’nd lantskip Snow, or howre; If chance the radiant Sun with farewell weet Extend his ev’ning beam, the fields revive, The birds thir notes renew, and bleating herds Attet thir joy, that hill and valley rings. O hame to men! Devil with Devil damn’d Firm concord holds, men onely diagree