[Footnote 343: "A young Lord (Mulgrave,) newly come of age, owned himself to his majesty disobliged, because, after a voyage to Tangier, his great valour there, _and spending his youth in the king's service_, (these were his own words to the king,) another was preferred to the command of the Lord Plymouth's regiment. I cannot but commend this nobleman's ingenuity, in owning the true cause, and not pretending, as others, conscience and public good for his motives. But I am sorry he should forget, not only the obligations of gratitude, which he is under for his bread, and for his honour, but also who says, "Appear not wise before the king, and give not counsel unasked." He has learning enough to understand the meaning of, _In concilium non vocatus ne accesseris_. It is to be hoped he may repent, and with more years his wit may be turned into wisdom." _Seasonable address to parliament_. SOMERS' _Tracts_, p. 118.] [Footnote 344: Reresby's Memoirs, p. 172.] [Footnote 345: Hume, Vol. VIII. p. 209.] [Footnote 346: See the Dedication to "King Arthur," Vol. VIII. p. 113.] [Footnote 347: Next Jonas stands, bull faced but chicken-souled, Who once the silver Sanhedrim controuled, Their gold tipped tongue; gold his great council's bawd, Till by succeeding Sanhedrims outlawed. He was preferred to guard the sacred store, There lordly rolling in whole mines of ore; To dicing lords a cully favourite, He prostitutes whole cargoes in a night. Then to the top of his ambition come, Fills all his sayls for hopeful Absalom; For his religion's as the reason calls, God's in possession, in reversion Baal's; He bears himself a dove to mortal race, And though not man, he can look heaven i' th' face. Never was compound of more different stuff, A heart in lambskin, and a conscience buff. ] [Footnote 348: Otway attributes the same magic power to the king's speech. After calling on a painter to depict a tumultuous senate, he adds, But then let mighty Charles at distance stand, His crown upon his head, and sceptre in his hand, To send abroad his word; or, with a frown, Repel and dash the aspiring rebels down. Unable to behold his dreaded ray, Let them grow blind, disperse, and reel away; Let the dark fiends the troubled air forsake, And all new peaceful order seem to take. _Windsor Castle._ ] ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART II. _Si quis tamen hæc quoque, si quis Captus amore leget._---- ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL. PART SECOND.