Hester Lynch SALUSBURY

The famous Quatrain Number 93.¹ de Pybrac which hindered his being made Chancellor of France I likewise imitated & published about the same Time.

Je hai ces mots de puissance absoluë

De plein Pouvoir de premier Mouvement;
Aux Saints Decrets ils ont premierement,
Puis de nos Loix la puissance tolluë.—

I hate this vile Maxim of absolute Sway

    To Britons a new fangled Notion;
    And lost us the Rule of the Ocean.—

Footnotes

1. Number 93.↩︎