ye will not, if I trust To know ye right, or if ye know yourselves 790 Natives and sons of Heav’n possessed before By none, and if not equal all, yet free, Equally free; for orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Who can in reason then or right assume 795 Monarchy over such as live by right His equals, if in power and splendour less, In freedom equal? or can introduce Law and edíct on us, who without law Err not, much less for this to be our Lord,258 800 And look for adoration to th’ abuse Of those imperial titles which assert Our being ordained to govern, not to serve?
