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366 He could command the spir'ts up from below, And bind them strongly till they let him know All the dread secrets that belong'd them to, And what they did with whom they had to do."

Drayton believed that in the starry heavens—

and yet he not unnaturally asks,

He makes Queen Isabella tell Mortimer that their birth-fixed stars so luckily agree that their "revolution seriously directs our like proceedings to the like effects." We learn that at Mortimer's "deliberate and unusual birth" the heavens were said to have retired in council, and to have endued him with a spirit of insatiable aspiration. Of the happy night when he escaped from the Tower his Love declared,

It may be new to some, who know well enough that "the stars in their courses fought against Sisera," that when the Creator had determined to destroy the elder world He made the stars His instruments: